Crystal Gazing 
iritual Clairvoyance 

Behind TheVeil 
he Trance Sleep 



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BEHIND THE VEIL-THE TRANCE SLEEP 

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THE BERYL-CRYSTAL. ANCIENT METHODS. 
CLEAR SIGHT OR THE MAGNETIC SLEEP. 
SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE. ASTRAL 
APPEARANCES IN THE CRYSTAL. 
CLAIRVOYANCE OR GENERAL 
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By 
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Magic And East Indian Occultism. The Master Key. 
The Sacred Book Of Death And Hindu Spiritism. The 
Mystic Test Book Of The Hindu Occult Chambers. 
The Wonders Of The Magic Mirror. Crystal Gazing 
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Truth And Christian Theology. Medical Hypnosis 
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The great interest in the Ancient art of Crystal-Gazing, 
the curiosity evinced wherever a translucent Crystal or 
Ovoid is exposed to observation, whether in the hands of 
an adept or a student of occultism, and the generally pre- 
vailing difficulty of supplying to numerous enquirers, or 
purchasers of Crystals, an answer in concise form to 
their varied queries arising from generally prevailing lack 
of information regarding this fascinating subject, have 
prompted the production of this Volume. The author, 
while aware of the difference of opinion the issue of this 
work may produce, ventures notwithstanding to respect- 
fully set forth what he deems a working hypothesis 
touching the causes operating to produce the observed 
phenomena, and the statement of which he is not without 
hope may lead to further careful research by those into 
whose hands this guide to Crystal-Gazing may fall. 

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6 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

The tenets of Phrenology and Astrology have both been 
laid under brief contribution; not that these sciences are 
necessarily connected, but because it appears to the author 
wiser to neglect nothing calculated to shed any new light 
upon an ancient subject. 

Spiritual is explained in Part Two, "Clairvoyance." 
That this outline of Crystal-Gazing and Clairvoyance 
may prove helpful, interesting, and suggestive to the prac- 
tical Disciple and Student of Occultism is the desire of 

the author. 

Dr. L. W. db Laurence. 



spiritual OIktni0ganr^ 



CHAPTER I. 

THE BERYL CRYSTAL. 

The name "Crystal" is from the Greek; meaning "clear 
ice" or "frozen water" A Crystal is a natural inorganic 
solid, bounded by plane surfaces, which are symmetrically 
arranged around certain imaginary lines called axes. 

It was thought for many centuries that Rock-Crystal 
was water turned to stone, and this conception remained 
unchanged until the commencement of the seventeenth 
century. The term has since been rather loosely applied 
to any solid capable of assuming geometrical shape under 
the control of the natural laws; but the Crystal which has 
ever found most favor for the purposes of "Crystallo- 
mancy" or "Divination" through the medium of "Crys- 
tal-gazing" is the Beryl, a mineral (silicate of beryllia), 
which crystallizes in six-sided prisms, the sides of which 
are often striated longitudinally, but the terminating 
plants are usually, though not always, smooth. The 

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8 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

precious stones known as Aquamarine — sea-green or 
sky-blue in color — the Golden Beryl, and deep rich 
green known as the Emerald, are all varieties of the 
Beryl. 

Their hardness varies from 7.5 to 8.0, and the specific 
gravity from 2.678 to 2.732. 

With an admixture of borax or soda, the Beryl forms 
a beautiful clear glass. The "Chrysoprasus" of the 
Scriptures (more green than the ordinary Beryl), and 
also the chrysoberylus (yellowed) and chrysolithus, which 
last was believed to be connected with sight, appear to 
have been names applied to different shades of Beryl, 
of which Gorraeus gives a list of eight. 

THE BERYL. 

The chemical composition of the genuine Beryl is as 

follows : — 

Silica 68.07 per cent. 

Alumina 17.06 " 

Glucina 13.04 " 

Red Oxide of Iron . . . 0.24 

The finest come from Dauria, on the frontiers of China, 
from Siberia, and Brazil. One found in the U. S. A. 
measured : — 

32X22X15 inches, and weighed 2,900 lbs. 
Another 12X24X45 inches, and weighed 1,076 lbs. 

The stone is called by the Italians, "Beryl-Crystal," but 
the English lapidaries drop the use of the latter word, 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 9 

and simply call it "Beryl." It expands by heat in a di- 
rection perpendicular to the principal axis, and contracts 
on the line of the axis; hence there is a point where the 
expansion and contraction exactly neutralize each other. 

The Beryl is harder than ordinary quartz. 

Those* who may care to study the question of the 
physiological relation of the eyes to the phenomena of 
refraction, are referred to the following works given in 
the Foot Note below. 

Other authors, besides those mentioned in the Foot 
Note, are Helmholtz, Brewster, Hermann, Jaeger, 
Budge, Faraday, etc. 

It may be of interest to remark that Dr. J. Pell, an old 
writer, states that spectacles were originally made with 
the Beryl-Crystal, and that the Germans call a spectacle- 
glass "brill" (beryl) on that account. 

Chaucer, in "The House of Fame" (b. iii.), mentions 
the beryl thus : — 

"And I amused a long while 
Upon this wall of Berile, 
That shone brighter than a glass, 
And made well more than it was." 

According to Pliny and Vossius, the name is of Eastern 
origin (cf. Arab, billauer, or ballur = Crystal) . The 
Beryl is mentioned in the Bible (a. v.), Rev. xxi. 20. 

* "Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction." Bonders. (18€%.) — 
Philosophical Transactions. Thos. Young. (1801.) — Archives of Oph- 
thalmology. Vol. ix., p. 28. — Anomal. d. Refraction. Nagel. P. 461. — 
Art. Dioptrik des Auges (Listing), in Wagner's "Handucorterbuch der 
Physiologic" (1853.) — Griindzuge der phys. Optik. in vol. ii. of Oraef&s 
"Handb. der gesammten-." (1876.) 



10 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

It may interest the reader to note the respective differ- 
ence existing between the chemical composition of the 
ordinary Beryl and the Emeralds- 
Beryl. Emerald. 



Silica 


. . 67.00 


68.50 


Alumina 


. . 16.50 


1575 


Glucina 


. . 14.50 


12.50 


Oxide cf Iron 


1.00 


1.00 


Oxide of Chromium 


0.00 


0.30 


Lime 


0.50 


0.25 



The Crystal-Gazers of the fifth century were known as 
the Specularii, and were established in Ireland. 

Saint Augustine believed, and probably with truth, 
that the practice originated in Persia. 

Aubrey in his "Miscellanies" pp. 131, etc. (1671), 
refers to the Crystal used in divination as having in its 
composition "a weak tincture of red" (iron), and quotes 
a work thereon by Sam Boisardus, entitled, "De Divina- 
tione per Crystallum" 

St. Thomas Aquinas, Maury in his "La Magie et 
VAstrologie" Allan Kardec, and many other writers 
refer to this art. 

In recent years the subject has likewise received atten- 
tion at the hands of A. E. Waite, Binet et Fere, Mr. 
F. W. H. Myers, of the London Psychical Research 
Society, and by Miss X., the well-known writer in "Bor- 
derland," a quarterly journal of occultism edited by Mr. 
W. F. Stead; while the "Proceedings of the Psychical 
Research Society/' London, part xiv., for May, 1889, 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 11 

and likewise part xxiii. of the same publication, deal with 
various facts, theories, or experiments relative to the 
subject. 

THE CRYSTAL. 

Pliny, the historian, remarks that it is not easy to say 
why the Crystal takes up the hexagonal form, and par- 
ticularly mentions that the points do not present the same 
appearance (eo magis quod neque mucronibus cadem 
species est). 

"No artist can equal the actual polish of the sides of 
the crystal," he tells us, and uses the name Crystal to indi- 
cate the ice-like transparency and purity of the stone, 
He (Pliny) mentions the Crystal as having been brought 
originally from India, and considered it to result from 
the concretion of water by cold (xxxvii. 2). In this 
opinion he was supported by Seneca {Quaest. Nat. iii. 
25), and by Isodorus (Orig. xvi. 13). Diodorus Siculus 
(Bib. ii. 134), however, considered it to have been caused 
not by cold, but by fire. 

Amongst the Fathers of the Church, Austin, Jerome, 
Isidore, Basil, and Gregory the Great, held the views of 
Pliny. Sir Thomas Brown, in his "Enquiry into Com- 
mon Errors/' denies the philosophy of the ancients. 

Nicolaus Stena, born at Copenhagen, Denmark, in 
1638, in his treatise, "De solida intra solidum naturaliter 
contenta y> (1669), rejects extreme cold as being the 
cause of crystallization, and attributed the latter to mag- 
netic power, or something akin thereto. He considered 



12 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

that crystals grew, not from within, but from without, 
through the medium of infinitesimal particles carried to, 
and deposited definitely at the ends of the Crystal; while 
he likewise held them to manifest the phenomena of con- 
tinued growth. He laid it down as his conviction "that 
the number and length of the sides in the plane of the 
axis may vary widely without change in the angles" (in 
piano axis, literum et numerum et longitudinem varie 
multari non mutatis angulis). 

Many other observers and writers may be mentioned, 
among whom are Leeuwenhoek in his "Arcana Naturae" 
(1695), Sir Isaac Newton in "Optics" (1706), Engliel- 
mini in "De Salibus Dissertatio Epistolaris" (1707), 
Robert Boyle, De la Hire, Cappeller, and Henckel, in 
whose various writings many curious and interesting 
observations relative to the subject may be found. 

Linnaeus, who also wrote upon Crystallography, gave 
an impetus to the investigations of Rome Delisle, whose 
able "Essai de Chrystallographie" appeared in 1772, and 
was followed eleven years later by an enlarged edition, 
in which he gives upwards of five hundred regular forms 
of Crystals, while at the same time affirming "that, amidst 
all the innumerable variations of which the primitive form 
of a crystal is susceptible, there is one thing that never 
varies, and remains constantly the same in each species 
— viz., the angle of incidence, or the respective inclination 
of the faces to each other" 

The name Crystal was originally applied only to ordi- 
nary quartz, or "Rock Crystal." The Italians spoke of 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 13 

it as "cristalla," the Spanish "cristal," the French "Crys- 
tal/* Latin "Crystallus." Later on, the term was more 
generally applied to any symmetrically formed mineral, 
solid, transparent, or opaque, contained or bounded by 
plane surfaces. Ben Jonson mentions the existence of 
Crystal Divination and its accompaniments thus : — 

" They have their Chrystals, I do know, and rings, 
And virgin parchment, and their dead men's skulls, 
Their raven wings, their lights, and Pentacles, 
With characters; I ha seen all these." 

{Devil an Ass., i., 2.) 

Swedborg, in his "Earths in the Universe" (Lond., 
i860) p. 7, speaking of the inhabitants of the planet 
Mercury, says : — 

"Some of them are desirous to appear, not like the spirits of other 
earths, as men, but as Crystalline globes. Their desire to appear so, 
although they do not, arises from the circumstances that the knowl- 
edges of things immaterial are in the other life represented by Crys- 
tals." 

In the United Kingdom Beryl is found among the 
Mourne Mountains, Co. Down; in the neighborhood of 
Killiney, Co. Dublin; in Co. Wicklow; in some parts of 
Cornwall ; and in Aberdeenshire in the granite of Robis- 
law, and also in the upper reaches of the Dee and the 
Don. It occurs likewise in Rio San Matteo in Brazil, 
Schlackenwald in Bohemia, in Siberia, and many other 
parts, such as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, 
Connecticut, etc., U. S. A. Occurring thus in great 
abundance, it has comparatively depreciated in value; 



14 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

but amongst the Romans it was highly prized in the 
manufacture of jewelry. Mount Zabarah, in Upper 
Egypt, was the probable source from which the ancients 
derived the Beryl. The colors of the beryl range from 
blue through honey-yellow to absolute transparency; the 
latter resulting from the presence of peroxide of iron, 
while the green and various shades of blue represent the 
effect of protoxide of iron in varying quantities. The 
favorite shade of this Crystal utilized by ancient Seers 
was the pale water-green Beryl or delicate "aquamarine" 
— the same referred to by Drayton in his Nymphal 9, 
thus : — 

" The topaz we'll stick here and there, 
And sea-green coloured beryl/' 

For the use of this hue, or tint, there appears to have 
been more than one reason. Certainly other stones, such 
as the white sapphire, and even vessels of water, were 
pressed into the service ; but it must be remembered that 
water-green was, astrologically considered (and all 
divination was more or less connected with high 
astrology), a color especially under the influence of the 
Moon, an orb exerting very great magnetic influence. 

Now, when we, in the first place, reflect that the Beryl, 
Emerald, Sapphire, Adamantine, Spar, etc., all contain 
Oxide of Iron, a substance presenting the strongest affin- 
ity for Magnetism, and when we also remember the strict 
injunctions of the ancient occultists to utilize the Crystal 
only during the increase of the Moon, the idea naturally 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 15 

suggests itself that the connecting link between the 
crystal and the spiritual world is Magnetism, attracted 
to and accumulated in or around the Crystal by the iron 
infused throughout its constitution, and that the greater 
the increase of the Moon the greater consequently is the 
supply and accumulation of the Lunar magnetism in the 
Crystal. 

This theory is strengthened by the statements of a 
Hindu Adept, who, writing of the manufacture of Magic 
Mirrors, informs us that the great desideratum is to 
retain the accumulated magnetism upon the surface of 
the Mirrors, and it is the difficulty of achieving this 
which renders the production of genuine Magic Mirrors 
so costly. 

But granted that the above-mentioned theory be cor- 
rect in relation to the Crystal itself, the further question 
naturally arises — How is the operator placed en rapport 
with the Crystal Globe, sphere, or ovoid; or, in other 
words, what is the secret or modus operandi of bringing 
the inquirer or experimenter into direct contact with the 
Crystal, and, through its medium, with the unseen world? 
To this question I render the following reply : — 

(a) By Concentration in the Crystal of the great- 
est possible influx of celestial or terrestrial magnetism 
or both. 

(b) By Concentration in the Body of the operator 
of unalloyed magnetism, through the purity of the ama- 
tory functions. 



16 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

(c) By Concentration of the Mind, through the 
mental faculty of "Concentrativeness," acting through 
the Phrenological Brain "centre," located in the superior 
portion of the First Occipital convolution of the Cere- 
brum. 

Hence, those persons endowed with natural ability to 
concentrate the attention, are thereby aided in their use 
of the sphere. To what extent this power exists in the 
would-be experimenter can be told by a first-class 
Phrenologist. 

(d) Concentration of the gaze upon the Crystal. 
Why ? Because, as taught by the famous Hindu Crystal- 
Gazers, there streams from the human eyes an efflux of 
Magnetism, projected from its reservoir in the Cerebel- 
lum, when the gaze is concentrated upon a given point. 

At this juncture it may be remarked that the "centres" 
of sight are located by modern Physiologists in the pos- 
terior lobes of the Brain, above the region of the 
Cerebellum. 

Now observe : — 

(a) That the ancients taught the importance of strict 
purity in relation to the amatory nature, when either 
Crystal-Gazing, Clairvoyance or other Occult efforts were 
put forth, and hence the use of boys and virgins in 
Crystal-Divination. 

(b) That Phrenologists have located the propensity 
to physical love in the Cerebellum, or small brain, just 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 17 

beneath the before-mentioned posterior lobe of the Cere- 
brum. 

(c) This being so, the Cerebellum became, as it were, 
a reservoir of Magnetism, directly connected with the 
creative economy, or would at all events influence the 
quality of the magnetic outflow through the eyes — the 
brain "centres" for which lie just above the region of the 
Cerebellum, as also does that area devoted to the "con- 
centration of attention." See Plate One. 

The Cerebellum is held by various authorities to pre- 
side over, or be connected with, the co-ordination of 
muscular movement of the limbs. It is situated in the 
inferior occipital fossae below the tentorium. The 
Phrenologist, while recognising the influence of the Cere- 
bellum over co-ordinated movement, claims certain of its 
parts as being also related to physical love, which is in 
its turn closely allied to muscular action. 

Purity of the Blood is important to purity of power. 
Hence the life fluid must be purified. Food, Digestion, 
Sleep, Drinks — all must receive a proper degree of atten- 
tion. Sound physical organs are not absolutely essential, 
but nevertheless it is best to enjoy healthy Brain, Heart, 
Liver, Kidneys, Stomach, Lungs, and pelvic apparatus, 
if one desires to attain a high degree of lucidity, or clear- 
ness of mental vision, and all this largely depends upon 
the condition of the Blood. Clairvoyance depends as 
much upon air, light, diet, sleep, labor, music, health, as 
upon mechanically induced magnetism, or mesmerism. 



18 CBYSTAL-GAZING 

The condition of the vital fluid at the time of experi- 
menting with the Crystal being of so great importance, 
it will be of utility for the reader to consider the follow- 
ing facts : — 

There is, on an average, one part by weight of iron in 
two hundred and thirty human blood corpuscles, and the 
total quantity of iron in the blood of a man weighing one 
hundred and forty pounds is about thirty-eight grains, 
while about one grain per day is on the average taken into 
the body with food. Iron is a component part of the 
haemoglobin of the blood, and forms the coloring matter 
of the red blood corpuscles. The white or colorless cor- 
puscles which are much fewer in number than the red, 
in a healthy body are diminished by Fasting, and in- 
creased by eating, and this fact is of interest in connec- 
tion with the advisability of fasting prior to magnetic 
experiment with the crystal globe, as enjoyed by the 
Seers of the past. 

Two principal forms of iron are apparent in the 
blood: — I. Protoxide of iron, which is principally found 
in the Venous or dark blood. This is also known as 
ferrous oxide, and constitutes the base of the green or 
ferrous salts of iron, which latter cannot be obtained in 
an isolated state. Protoxide of iron combines with water 
to form a hydrate, FeO, HO, which, on the addition of 
an alkali, falls in white flakes, provided the water in 
which they are suspended contains no free oxygen; 
otherwise the precipitate is grey. 2. Peroxide of iron, 
which is mostly found in the arterial, or bright scarlet 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 19 

blood. It is known as sesquioxide, or ferric oxide, 
colcothar, "crocus of Mars/' haematite, rouge, or red 
oxide of iron. It is the base of the red or ferric salts 
(Fe 2 O a ) and is practically the same thing as iron-rust, 
which is a hydrated peroxide. 

Now, a compound of the two preceding oxides consti- 
tutes what was formerly known as the "loadstone," or 
black magnetic oxide of iron; and it is a remarkable fact 
that persons of dark or very dark hair, eyes, and skin are 
the most magnetic; and this darkness is, it would seem, 
connected with a preponderance of the protoxide of iron 
in the blood over the peroxide in the proportion of two 
(2) parts to one (1), which happens to be a similar pro- 
portion to that existing in the "loadstone" Such per- 
sons are usually dominantly representative of a bilious 
tendency, or so-called "bilious temperament;" and we 
know that the amount of iron in the bile is important, 
being present as a phosphate derived from haemoglobin. 

Some of the iron is stored in the liver cells, and some 
discharged as phosphate into the bile, in which latter 
oxygen is almost wholly absent, though small quantities 
of nitrogen are found, the most important gas being the 
carbonic acid. 

When we remember the importance of deep breathing 
in clairvoyant effort, the antibilious tendency of the 
"mugwort" and other magnetically inclined herbs, the 
facts in general seem to point to the conclusion that a 
certain chemical balance between the ferric and oxygenic, 
and consequently magnetic conditions of the blood and 



20 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

bile, are necessary for the obtainance of the most perfect 
powers of concentration and lucid sight, or clairvoyance. 

The phenomena of Crystal Vision may be classed as 
follows : — 

First. Images of something unconsciously observed. 
New reproductions, voluntary or spontaneous, and bring- 
ing no fresh knowledge to the mind. 

Second. Images of ideas unconsciously acquired from 
others, by telepathy or otherwise. Some Memory or 
Imaginative effect, which does not come from the gazer's 
ordinary self. Revivals of Memory. Illustrations of 
Thought. 

Third. Images, clairvoyant or prophetic. Pictures 
bringing information as to something past, present, or 
future which the gazer has no other chance of knowing. 

With this view I cordially agree, and hence would im- 
press upon the reader the fact that anything and every- 
thing perceived in the Crystal does not belong to the 
phenomena coming under the third heading, which latter 
alone are in the category of true Crystal-Divination, as 
taught and practised by the ancient Seers. 

Such pictures as belong to divisions First and Second 
may, of course, appear not only in a Crystal, but in a 
vase, glass of water decanter, etc., etc., the mere result 
of visualisation; and their production requires little or 
none of the care and observation of conditions herein 
set forth for the guidance of the more spiritual investi- 
gation. 

It is clear that the effects obtained through the medium 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 21 

of Crystal-Gazing are variable in kind, as before stated. 
For example : — Scenes or pictures may appear to the 
gazer which are merely a reproduction of those which 
have been previously seen, and impressed upon the vision 
of the experimenter in much the same manner as upon 
the mind of the ordinary artist, when he pictures and 
paints in detail upon his canvas in the studio some scene 
or landscape memorised by him a week before. Phre- 
nology teaches that this power, which is not confined to 
artists, but is likewise utilised by mental calculators, de- 
tectives, and others, is largely dependent on the faculty 
of "Form/" whose correspondent brain "centre" is lo- 
cated in the first frontal convolution of the cerebrum, 
upon the two sides of the t( crista galli." Dr. J. F. Gall, 
the Father of Phrenology, called it " 'Aptness to recollect 
persons." It is perceptive and recollective of shape, out- 
line, profile, and contour, and hence of faces and forms 
in general. 

.An individual strongly endowed by nature with this 
power has, as the external sign of the internal brain form, 
the eyes set widely apart in the face. Now, where an 
individual possesses this faculty in marked degree of 
development, his ability to reproduce a bygone scene be- 
fore the mental vision, is very much stronger involun- 
tarily than where this sign is lacking; and if, added to 
this, the bodily temperament is of fine sensitive quality, 
and the faculties of "Ideality" (imagination — near the 
vertical Frontal fissure) and "Spirituality" (called "or- 
gane qui dispose aux visions" — the organ disposing one 



22 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

to perceive visions, the prophetic instinct — "Supernatu- 
ralite" the brain "centre" of ideation, which is located in 
the "Ascending Frontal convolution") be well or strongly- 
marked in development (phrenological), it is clear that 
an individual so endowed possesses a far better chance 
of successfully using the Crystal, for the mere reproduc- 
tion of bygone scenes, etc., than has one in whom these 
endowments are lacking or weakly represented. (See 
Plate J.) 

The writer suggests that if Oriental Temple Incense 
is burned a short time before using the Crystal and occa- 
sionally during the Moon's increase by the Crystal 
Gazer, it constitutes an aid to the attainment of the most 
desirable physical conditions of the experimenters body. 

The reasons for this suggestion are : 

1. That the properties of Temple Incense are spe- 
cially responsive to magnetic influence; its smoke, like 
the compass needle, invariably turning towards the 
north. 

2. As the Beryl is under the Zodiacal sign Libra, so 
also are the herbs from which Oriental Temple Incense 
is made. 

3. Libra is the sign more particularly related to the 
Renal or Kidney System, which latter is in its turn 
closely connected with — 

(a) The Perceptive Faculties and Brain "centres" 
of the phrenologists corresponding thereto, and therefore 
with the Eyes (See Plate I.) ; 

(b) With the Intuitive powers. 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 
PLATE I. 



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— "Libra/' or the Zodiacal Sign governing the Perceptive Faculties 

over the Eyes and Kidneys. 
8 "Taurus," or the Zodiacal Sign governing the Neck and Or*- 

bellum and Amative functions. 
3) "Luna," the Moon. 
? Venus. 
A Back of the Brain containing " centres " of Sight, " Concentration 

of Attention " and " Adhesive attraction." 
b " Centre " of " Spirituality " in the Brain. 



24 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

(c) Reference has already been made to the Cere- 
bellar or amative relations of the Eyes, and power of 
''Concentration of Attention" in the Brain, and as the 
Zodiacal sign Libra is one of the two signs primarily- 
related to Venus (Taurus being the second), who rules 
the generative and kidney system, the general connection 
of all the foregoing forces with the subject under con- 
sideration — viz., Crystal-Gazing — will be clearly ap- 
parent to the esoteric student. (See Plate I.) 

4. That, being magnetic, and acting also upon the 
Mental system, these herbs influence beneficially the func- 
tions most closely allied to magnetic force, acting in con- 
junction with sensitive intuition, and upon the production 
of the said force and its constitution. 

The following tabulation may aid to render these ideas 
clearer : — 

Zodiacal Signs. Planet Temperament. 

1. Libra 1 Hot and Moist — Sanguine. 

V Venus Cold and Moist — Lymphatic. 

2. Taurus. ... J Cold and Dry — Nervous. 

Moon Cold and Moist — Phlegmatic. 

It will be observed by this table that neither of the 
signs or planets, which appear from the analysis to be 
specially contributory to the lucid powers, are of the pro- 
nounced bilious temperament. Hence it would seem 
that the herbs from which Oriental Temple Incense is 
made, being Magnetic, tend to the preservation of just 
those Mental conditions indicated by the above-named 
temperaments. 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 25 

Leaving now this theory, let us glance at the connec- 
tion of the Moon therewith. 

According to Astrology the Crystals and Selenite come 
under her influence, while the Intuitive Powers of the 
Mind and Brain are likewise largely affected thereby. 
Now the Poles of the Human Brain specially domi- 
nated by the Moon are located (a) in the region extend- 
ing from just above the Eyes (the Perceptives of 
phrenologists) — an area related to Libra, let us remem- 
ber, as we have already seen — and (b) the back of the 
Neck where it joins the head, the very area ruled by 
Taurus, and also containing the phrenological "centres" 
of amative force in the cerebellum. (See Plate I.) 

Due attention should ever be paid to the following 
principal Magnetic Laws: — . . . . 

i. Persistence of Purpose to a given End or Aim. 

2. Attention. 

3. Calmness. 

4. Will. (The "It-shall-be-as-I-want-if } power) 

5. Intensity. 

6. Polarity. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE ANCIENT METHOD. 

i. Keep the Crystal clean. If very dirty or discolored 
treat it as follows: — Mix together six parts water and 
one of brandy. Boil them over a brisk fire, and let the 
crystal be kept in a boiling state about fifteen minutes. 
Then take out and rub carefully over with a brush dipped 
in the same liquor. Rub dry with chamois or a clean 
cloth. 

2. The person for whom you are going to give a 
reading may hold it in their hands for a few minutes 
previous to its use, but no one else, except yourself. 

3. If the Crystal appears hazy or dull, it is a sign that 
you are likely to see ; it will afterwards clear, and the form 
or vision become manifest. Immediately before the ap- 
parition is beheld, the Crystal becomes clouded or dark- 
ened, or what some term "black." Presently this clears 
away, and the Crystal becomes exceedingly bright; as if 
illuminated by an effulgence proceeding from its interior, 
doubtless due to the iron and magnetism disseminated 
throughout its constitution. 

4. If you require to see events taking place at a great 
distance, look lengthwise through the Crystal. 

The works of olden days insist upon elaborate cere- 
monial as follows : — 

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CRYSTAL-GAZING 27 

(a) Use frequent ablutions (washings) and prayers, 
three or four days before consulting the crystal. 

{b) The Moon must be in her increase, i. e., going 
towards the Full. (This should never be neglected. It 
is of great importance to your success.) 

(c) When the Sun is in his greatest Northern declina- 
tion is the best time, so far as regards his influence in 
the matter. 

(d) The room must be clean and neat, with nothing 
therein likely to disturb the attention, and should be kept 
locked when not in use. 

(e) The floor must be well scoured, or clean. Every 
preparation must be made during the Moon's increase. 

(/) Place in the room a small table, covered with a 
white linen cloth. (This if the experimenter does not 
use the ancient Lamen or Holy Table.) {See Plate II.) 

(g) A chair, and burner for a fumigation. The fumi- 
gation is for burning the usual invoking powder, such as 
Temple Incense. 

(h) Two waxen candles in brass candlesticks, highly 
polished; a pair of compasses; twine; knife; scissors, etc. 

The Crystal should be about 2.y 2 inches in diameter ; 
or at least the size of an orange. It should be enclosed 
in a frame of ivory, ebony, or boxwood, highly polished, 
or stood upon a glass or crystal pedestal. {See Plate 

in.) 

When following strictly the ancient methods described 
herein, the Crystal is to be stood upon the Lamen or 
table, but if simply held in the hand, its top end should 



28 



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PLATE II. 




The Top of the Lamen. 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 29 

lean away from the gazer, and should be held so that no 
reflections or shadows appear therein. If stood on the 
table, the folds of a black silk cloth may be arranged 
about the Crystal so as to shut out reflections. 

The mystic names to be engraved in raised letters of 
gold round about the frame are : — 

On the N. Tetragrammaton. 

" E. Emmanuel. 

" S. Agla. 

" W. Adonay. 

The pedestal which supports the frame should bear the 
mystical name 

Saday; 

while on the pedestals of the two candlesticks 

Elohim and 
Elohe 

must be respectively embossed. 

In consecrating, the forms must be repeated while the 
invocant is laying his hands upon the Crystal. His face 
must be turned to the East while this is being done. 

No Crystal or Magic Mirror should be handled by 
other than the owner, because such handling mixes the 
magnetisms, and tends to destroy their sensitiveness. 
Others may look into them, but should not touch them, 
except the person who may be consulting the gazer, as 
already mentioned. If the surface becomes dirty or 
soiled, it may be cleaned with fine soapsuds, rinsed well, 



30 CBYSTAL-GAZING 

washed with alcohol or vinegar and water, and then pol- 
ished with soft velvet or a chamois leather. 

The Crystal or Magic Mirror should frequently be 
magnetized by passes made with the right hand, for about 
five minutes at a time. This aids to give it strength and 
power. Similar passes with the left hand add to the 
sensitiveness of the Crystal. 

The back of the Magic Mirror or Crystal should be 
held toward the light, but its face never. 

The Magnetism with which the surface of the Magic 
Mirror or Crystal becomes charged, collects there from 
the eyes of the gazer, and from the universal ether, the 
Brain being as it were switched on to the Universe, the 
Crystal being the medium. 

Persons of a Magnetic Temperament, such as, amongst 
others, those who are classed as brunette, dark-eyed, 
brown-skinned, and having dark hair, will charge the 
Crystal or Magic Mirror quicker, but not more effectually, 
than those of opposite or electric temperament, such as 
the blonde. The Hindus use a Hindu Magic Mirror as 
well as the f< Gazing Crystal." 

Astral Appearances in the Crystal. 

White Clouds - indicate Good; the affirmative; favor. 

Black Clouds " Bad; inauspicious. 

Violet, Green, Blue - - " Coming joy; excellent. 

Red, Crimson, Orange, Yellow " Danger, trouble, sickness ; "be- 

ware ;" deception, grief, be- 
trayal, slander, loss; sur- 
prises of a disagreeable 
nature. 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 



31 



Ascending Clouds - - indicate 



Descending Clouds - - indicate 



Clouds or Shadows - - indicate 



Affirmative replies to questions 
asked. Yes! If the query 
is a silent one it makes no 
difference. 

The negation of all questions. 
No! 

Moving towards the left hand 
mean " The seance is ended 
for the present time." 



Whatever appears on the left-hand 
side of the gazer is real, or a 
picture of an actual thing. 

Whatever appears on the right-hand 
side is symbolical. 

Moonlight - 



Sunlight 



Extremes of Heat or Cold - 
Clouds or Shadows - 



Benefits the Magic Mirror or 
Gazing Crystal. 

The chemical and active rays 
or influence of the direct 
sunlight are injurious, and 
will ruin the magnetic 
susceptibility of the Crystal. 

Are likewise injurious. 

Moving toward the gazer's right 
hand, indicate the presence 
of spiritual beings, and 
their interest. 



WARNING 

A sure and certain law exists, viz.: — That if the seer's 
purpose be evil when he or she uses the Crystal or Magic 
mirror, it will react upon the seer sooner or later with 
terrible effect; wherefore all are strictly cautioned to be 
good and do good only. 



32 CKYSTAL-GAZING 

The aerial spaces are thronged with countless intelli- 
gences — celestial, good, pure, true, and the reverse. The 
latter have forces the former possess power. To reach 
the good ones, the heart of the gazer must correspond, 
and they should be invoked with prayerful feelings. 

There are innumerable multitudes of the bad spirits on 
the confines of Matter and Spirit. These malign forces 
are many and terrible ; but they can never reach the soul 
that relies on good in perfect faith, and which only in- 
vokes the Good, the Beautiful, and True for noble pur- 
poses. 

In using the Crystal the Ancients used the following 
Prayer: — 

"O God, who art the Author of all good things, 
strengthen, I beseech Thee, Thy poor servant, that he may 
stand fast without fear through this dealing and work; 
enlighten, I beseech Thee, O Lord, the dark understand- 
ing of Thy creature, so that his spiritual eye may be 
opened to see and know Thy angelic spirits descending 
here in this Crystal. (Here lay your hand on the Crys- 
tal, saying) — And thou, O inanimate creature of God, be 
sanctified and consecrated and blessed to this purpose 
that no evil phantasy may appear in thee; or, if they do 
gain ingress into this creature, they may be constrained 
to speak truly, intelligibly, and without ambiguity. For 
Chris fs sake. Amen. And forasmuch as Thy servant 
here standing before Thee, O Lord, desires neither evil, 
treasures, nor injury to his neighbor, nor hurt to any 
living creature, grant him the power of descrying those 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 33 

celestial spirits or intelligences that may appear in this 
Crystal, and whatever good gifts (whether the power of 
healing infirmities or of imbibing wisdom, or discovering 
any evil likely to afflict any person or family, or any 
other good gift Thou may est be pleased to bestow on me, 
enable me, by Thy wisdom and mercy, to use whatever 
I may receive to the honor of Thy Holy Name. Grant 
this for Thy Son Christ's sake. Amen." 

Then, taking the ring and pentacle, put the ring on the 
little finger of your right hand. Hang the Pentacle (See 
Plate III.) round your neck. Then take your black 
ebony wand (See Plate III.) and trace the circle 1 (See 
Plate IV.) , saying: — 

"In the name of the blessed Trinity I consecrate this 
piece of ground for our defence; so that no evil spirit 
may have power to break these bounds prescribed here. 
Through Christ the Lord. Amen." 

Then place the burner for the Incense between the 
circle and the holy table, on which the Crystal stands, 
and having fire thereon, cast in the Incense, saying : — 

"I conjure thee, O thou creature of fire, by Him who 
created all things both in Heaven and Earth, and in the 
sea, and in every other place whatever, that forthwith 
thou cast away every phantasm from thee, that no hurt 
whatsoever shall be done in any thing. ,, 

"Bless, O Lord, this creature of fire, and sanctify it, 
that it may be blessed, and that they may fill up the 

1 The preferable time in which the Circle may be entered by the operator, 
is in the day and hour of Mercury, the Moon increasing. 



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PLATE III. 





The Crystal, set in pure 
gold, and stood in the 
center of the Lamen, 
or Holy Table. 



The Pentacle of Solomon, as engraved 
on solid square plate of silver. 



ACLA 



ON 



a TETRAGRAMMATON- * 



The Magic Wand of Black Ebony. Engraven on the opposite side are the words : — 
EGO, ALPHA kt OMEGA. 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 35 

power and virtue of their odors; so neither the enemy 
nor any false imagination may enter into them. Through 
our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen! 3 

It does not follow that the same spirit you call will 
always appear, and you must try the spirit, to know 
whether he be a pure or impure being, and this you will 
easily know by a firm and undoubted faith in God. 
(Nature.) Now, the most pure and simple way of 
"calling" the spirit or spirits is by a short oration to the 
spirit himself. Therefore, after the circle is drawn, the 
book, Temple Incense, rod, etc., in readiness, proceed as 
follows (after noticing the exact hour of the day, and 
what angel rules that hour (See Tables I. and II.), thou 
shalt say this "Call") :— 

"In the name of the blessed and holy Trinity, I do 
desire thee, thou strong and mighty angel, Michael* (See 
Tables I. and II.) , that if it be the divine will of Him 
who is called Tetragrammaton, etc., the Holy God, the 
Father, that thou take upon thee some shape, as best be- 
cometh thy celestial nature, and appear to us visibly here 
in this Crystal, and answer our demands in as far as we 
shall not transgress the bounds of the divine mercy and 
goodness, by requesting unlawful knowledge, but that 
thou wilt graciously show us what things are most profit- 
able for us to know and do, to the glory and honor of His 
Divine Majesty, who liveth and reigneth, world without 
end. Amen." 



* Or any other angel or spirit. Vassago, the "genius" of the Crystal, 
was anciently invoked. 



36 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

PLATE IV. 




The Magic Circle in which the Lamen and Crystal-Gazer stand. 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 37 

"Lord, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. 
Make clean our hearts within us, and take not Thy Holy 
Spirit from us." 

"O Lord, by Thy name we have called him. Suffer 
him to administer unto us, and that all things may work 
together for Thy honor and glory, to whom with Thee, 
the Son, and blessed Spirit, be abscribed all might, 
majesty, and dominion. Amen" 

Note. — In these dealings two should always be present, 
for often a spirit is manifest to one, in the Crystal, when 
the other cannot perceive him; therefore, if any spirit 
appear, as is most likely, to one or both, say — 

"O Lord, we return Thee our hearty and sincere thanks 
for the hearing of our prayer, and we thank Thee for 
having permitted Thy spirit to appear unto us, which we 
by Thy mercy will interrogate to our further instruction. 
Amen" 

Interrogation i. — In the name of the holy and unde- 
fined Spirit, the Father, the begotten Son, and Holy 
Ghost (proceeding from both), what is thy true name? 
(If the spirit answers "Michael," then proceed.) 

Interrogation 2. — What is thy office? 

Interrogation 3. — What is thy true sign or character? 

Interrogation 4. — When are the times most agreeable 
to thy nature to hold conference with us? Wilt thou 
swear by the blood and righteousness of our Lord Jesus 
Christ that thou art truly Michael? 

(Here let him swear, then write down his seal or 
character in thy book, and against it, his office, and times 



38 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

to be "called" through God's name ; also write down any- 
thing he may teach thee, or any responses he may make 
to thy questions or interrogations concerning life and 
death, arts or sciences, or any other thing.) 

Then shalt thou say — "Thou great and mighty spirit, 
inasmuch as thou earnest in peace and in the name of the 
ever-blessed and righteous Trinity, so in this name thou 
mayest depart, and return to us, when we call thee in 
His name, to whom every knee doth bow down. Fare 
thee well, Michael; peace be between us. Through our 
blessed Lord Jesus Christ Amen" 

Then will the spirit depart. Then say, "To God the 
Father, eternal Spirit, fountain of Light, the Son, and 
Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world without end. 
Amen." 

The best times, generally speaking, for using the 
Crystal are — At Sunrise; at Mid-day; at Sunset. The 
worst are from ten o'clock p. m. to two o'clock a. m. 



Here I bring to a close this attempt to present the 
reader with a guide to the art of using the Gazing Crystal. 
Nothing more of an interesting nature, relative to this 
subject could be added. Practical and careful experiment 
will, if nothing more, be yet found helpful in the direc- 
tion of increasing the power of Mental Concentration, 
and thus conducing to success in life. 

Let us lift up our desires to Him, by whom we are 
"fearfully and wonderfully made" and echo in our hearts 
the words of the old Hindu Adept: 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 39 

" When Thou Thy jewels dost bind up, that day 
Remember us, we pray. 
That where the Beryl lies, 
And the Crystal 'bove the skies, 
There Thou mayest appoint us a place 
Within the brightness of Thy face; 
And our soul 
In the scroll 

Of life and blissfulness enroll, 
That we may praise Thee to eternity." 

(The Golden Cross of India.) 



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CEYSTAL-GAZING 



Table showing the respective Angels whose names are 
to be inserted in the Prayer in place of "Michael" ac- 
cording to the hour of day or night when the Crystal is 
used; and for finding the Angel and Planet ruling any 
hour of the Day or Night. 

Table One. 







SUKDAT. 


Monday 


Tuesday. 


Hour 


Day. 




Day. 


Day. 


, 




Michael. 


J) Gabriel. 


<$ Samael. 


2 




2 Anael. 


b Cassiel. 


Michael. 


3 




9 Raphael. 


V Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 


4 




j) Gabriel. 


<$ Samael. 


9 Raphael. 


5 




h Cassiel. 


Michael. 


j) Gabriel 


G 




V Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 


b Cassiel 


7. 




£ Samael. 


9 Raphael. 


V Sachiel 


8. 




Michael. 
9 Anael. 


)) Gabriel. 


£ Samael. 


9. 




b Cassiel. 


Michael 


10. 




9 Raphael. 


11 Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 


11. 




J) Gabriel. 


(5 Samael. 


9 Raphael. 


12 




b Cassiel. 


Michael. 


]) Gabriel. 




j Wednesday 


Thursi>at 


Frida V 


Saturday- 


Hour 


Day. 


Day 


Day 


Day. 


, 


9 Raphael. 


H Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 


b Cassiel. 


2. 


]} Gabriel. 


<5 Samael. 


9 Raphael. 
)) Gabriel. 


11 Sachiel 


3. 


b Cassiel. 


O Michael. 


<$ Samael. 


4. 


H Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 


b Cassiel. 


Michael. 


5. 


<£ Samael. 
Michael. 


9 Raphael. 


11 Sachiel. 


9 ADael. 


6. 


]) Gabriel. 


(J Samael 


9 Raphael. 
j) Gabriel. 


7. 


9 Aoael. 


b Cassiel. 


Michael. 


8. 


9 Raphael. 
)) Gabriel. 


V Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 


b Cassiel. 


9. 


£ Samael. 
Michael. 


9 Raphael. 


V Sachiel. 


10. 


h Cassiel. 


)) Gabriel. 


<$ Samael. 


11. 


V Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 


b Cassiel. 


Michael. 


12 


£ Samael. 


9 Raphael. 


1/. Sachiel. 


9 Anael. 



CBYSTAL-GAZING 



41 



Table Two. 



Hour. 


9oot>at. 
Night. 


MOKDAV. 

JvtyAt. 


TUK8DAT. 

Night. 


1. 

2. 
3 
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 

a 

9. 
10. 

11. 

12. 


V SachieL 
£ Samael. 
Michael. 
9 AnaeL 
9 RaphaeL 
i Gabriel, 
b CassieL 
11 SachieL 
(J SamaeL 
Michael. 
9 AnaeL 
9 Raphael. 


9 Anael. 
9 RaphaeL 
}) GabrieL 
b Cassiel. 
11 SachieL 
<5 Samael. 
MichaeL 
9 AnaeL 
9 Raphael. 
J) Gabriel. 
b Cassiel. 
11 SachieL 


b Cassiel. 
2/ Sachiel. 
(J Samael. 
MichaeL 
9 . Atiael. 
9 RaphaeL 
p Gabriel. 
b CassieL 
2/ SachieL 
Jf SamaeL 
Michael. 
9 AnaeL 


Hour. 


Wbdkesday. 

Night. 


Thursday. 
Night. 


Friday. 
Night. 


Satctrdat. 
Night. 


1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9 

10. 
11. 
12. 


O Michael. 
9 AnaeL 
9 Raphael. 
)) GabrieL 
b Cassiel. 
1/ SachieL 
£ SamaeL 
MichaeL 
9 AnaeL 
9 Raphael. 
]) Gabriel, 
b Cassiel. 


j) Gabriel, 
b CassieL 
11 SachieL'. 
o* Samattf. 
MicbsSL 
9 Anael. 
Q RaphaeL 
)) Gabriel, 
b Cassiel. 
11 SachieL 
^ Samael 
Michael. 


£ Samael. 
Michael. 
9 Anael. 
9 Raphael, 
j) Gabriel, 
b Cassiel. 
11 SachieL 
<J Samael. 
Michael. 
9 Anael. 
9 Raphael. 
^ Gabriel. 


9 RaphaeL 
J) GabrieL 
b CassieL 
1/ SachieL 
£ SamaeL 
MichaeL 
9 Anael. 
9 RaphaeL 
]> GabrieL 
1) CassieL 
V SachieL 
<$ SamaeL 



CHAPTER III. 

INSTRUCTION FOR USING CRYSTAL. 

It will have been noticed by the student that the ancient 
methods of Crystal-Gazing for purposes of "divination" 
involved a somewhat elaborate ritual, including the use 
of swords, pentacles, candles, and many of the accompani- 
ments usual to the performance of Magical rites, in by- 
gone ages, when the object in view was not as at present, 
the cultivation of mere "Personal Clairvoyance" in the 
gazer, but rather to compel the actual presence in the 
Crystal of certain genii or spirits, and to obtain there- 
from answers to such questions as might be propounded 
by the querent. 

While, therefore, it has been of interest to write in the 
foregoing pages the historical aspect of this subject, it 
will be well for all persons into whose hands this book 
may fall to remember carefully the two following points : 

(a) That the modus operandi pursued by certain of the 
ancients, and in which the paraphernalia and ritual de- 
scribed were utilized, was one involving dangers of no 
mean order, as has been already pointed out, and could 
only be properly made use of by highly qualified votaries 
who had received personal training under some practical 
Adept and Master of the ceremonial, who understood 
the unseen forces of the spiritual world, both good and 

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CRYSTAL-GAZING 43 

evil, and the necessary steps to be taken for protecting 
themselves from possible injury, or even death, through 
the medium of wicked intelligences. 

(b) That as the ordinary experimenter of to-day has 
no desire to compel the presence of a spiritual being in 
the Crystal, it is quite unnecessary for him or her to draw 
magic circles, or to go to the trouble and expense of ac- 
quiring and using special or costly apparatus, with the 
exception of the Crystal itself. 

What is desired is through the regular use of the Gaz- 
ing Crystal to cultivate a personal degree of Clairvoyant 
power, so that visions of things or events, past, present, 
and future, may appear clearly to the interior vision, or 
eye of the soul. 

In the pursuit of this effort only, the Crystal becomes 
at once both a valuable, interesting, and useful channel 
of development and instruction, shorn of its former dan- 
gers, and rendered conducive to spiritual development. 

To the attainment of this desirable end, attention is 
asked to the following practical directions, which, if care- 
fully followed, will lead to success : 



PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE GAZING 
CRYSTAL. 

First. Select a quiet room where you will be entirely 
undisturbed, taking care that it is as far as possible free 
from mirrors, ornaments, pictures, glaring colors, and the 
like, which may otherwise distract the attention. 



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44 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

The room should be of comfortable temperature in ac- 
cordance with the time of year, neither hot or cold. 
About 6o° to 65 ° Fahr. is suitable in most cases, though 
allowance can be made where necessary for natural dif- 
ferences in the temperaments of various persons. Thus 
thin, nervous, delicately-organised individuals, and those 
of lymphatic and soft, easy-going, passive types, require 
a slightly warmer apartment than the more positive class, 
who are known by their dark eyes, hair, and complexion, 
combined with more prominent joints and sharper de- 
velopment of what phrenologists term the Perceptive 
region of the forehead. Should a fire, or any form of 
artificial light be necessary, it should be well screened off, 
so as to prevent the light rays from being reflected in, or 
in any manner directly reaching the Crystal. 

The room should not be dark, but rather shadowed, or 
charged with a dull light, somewhat such as prevails on 
a cloudy or wet day. 

Second. The Crystal should be placed on its stand on 
a table, or it may rest on a black velvet cushion, but in 
either case it should be partially surrounded by a black 
silk or similar wrap or screen, so adjusted as to cut off 
any undesirable reflection. 

Before beginning to experiment, remember that most 
frequently nothing will be seen on the first occasion," and 
possibly not for several settings, though some sitters, if 
strongly gifted with physic powers in a state of un- 
conscious, and sometimes conscious degree of unfold- 
ment, may be fortunate enough to obtain good results 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 45 

at the very first trial, especially if a small amount of Tem- 
ple Intense is burned just before using the Crystal. 

If, therefore, nothing is perceived during the first few 
attempts, do not despair or become impatient, or imagine 
that you will never see anything. 

There is a royal road to Crystal vision, but it is open 
only to the compound password of Calmness, Patience, 
and Perseverance. If at the first attempt to playing a 
piano or riding a bicycle failure ensues, the only way to 
learn is to pay attention to the necessary rules, and to 
persevere daily until the ability to play or ride comes 
naturally. 

Thus it is with the would-be seer. Persevere in ac- 
cordance with these simple directions, and success will 
sooner or later crown your efforts. 

Third. Commence by sitting comfortably with the 
eyes fixed upon the Crystal, not by a fierce stare, but with 
a steady, calm gaze, for thirty minutes only, on the first 
occasion. In taking the time it is best to stand your 
clock at a distance, where, while the face is clearly visible, 
the ticking is rendered almost inaudible. When the time 
is up, carefully put the Crystal away in its case, and keep 
it in a dark place, under lock and key, allowing no one but 
yourself to handle it. 

At the second sitting, which should be at the same 
place* in the same position, and at the same time, you 
may increase the length of the effort to forty minutes, and 

* This precise order of repetition is always to be followed until the 
disciple has developed an almost automatic ability to readily obtain results, 
when it need no longer be adhered to. 



46 CRYSTAL-GAZING 

continue for this period during the next five or six sit- 
tings, after which the time may be gradually increased, 
but should in no case exceed two hours. 

Fourth. Any person or persons admitted to the room, 
and allowed to remain while you sit, should (a) keep ab- 
solute silence, and (b) remain seated at a distance from 
you. 

When you have developed your Occult powers, ques- 
tions may, of course, be put to you by one of those pres- 
ent, but even then only in a very gentle, or low and slow 
tone of voice; never suddenly, or in a forceful manner. 

Fifth. When you find the Crystal begins to look dull 
or cloudy, with small pin points of light glittering therein, 
like tiny stars, you may know that you are commencing 
to obtain that for which you seek — viz., "Crystalline 
vision." Therefore persevere with confidence. This con- 
dition may, or may not, continue for several sittings, the 
Crystal seeming at times to alternately appear and dis- 
appear, as in a mist. By and by this hazy appearance 
will in its turn give place quite suddenly to a blindness of 
the senses to all else but a blue or bluish ocean of space, 
against which, as if it were a background, the vision will 
be clearly apparent. 

Sixth. The Crystal should not be used soon after 
taking a meal, and care should be taken in matters of diet 
to partake only of digestible foods, and to avoid alcoholic 
beverages. Plain and nourishing food, and outdoor exer- 
cise, with contentment of mind, or love of simplicity in 
living, are great aids to success. Mental anxiety, or ill- 



CRYSTAL-GAZING 47 

health, are not conducive to the desired end. Attention to 
correct breathing is of importance. 

Seventh. As regards the time at which events seen 
will come to pass, each Crystal-Gazer is usually impressed 
with regard thereto ; but as a general rule, visions appear- 
ing in the extreme background indicate time more re- 
mote, either past or future, than those perceived nearer 
at hand, while those appearing in the forefront, or close 
to the seer, denote the present, or immediate future. 

Eighth. Two principal classes of visions will present 
themselves to the sitter — (a) The Symbolic, indicated by 
the appearance of symbols such as a flag, boat, knife, 
gold, etc.; and (b) Actual Scenes and Personages, in ac- 
tion or otherwise. 

Persons of a Positive cast of organisation, the more 
active, excitable, yet decided type, are most likely to per- 
ceive symbolically, or allegorically; while those of a Pas- 
sive nature usually receive direct or literal revelations. 
Both classes will find it necessary to carefully cultivate 
truthfulness, unselfishness, gratitude for what is shown, 
and absolute confidence in their own ability to concen- 
trate the mind. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

CLEAR SIGHT OR MAGNETIC SLEEP. 

The subject of Spiritual Clairvoyance, however 
strange it may appear to the western mind, is not new to 
the world. 

The ancient Grecian philosophers, Pythagoras and 
Plato, and their successors, who discoursed of "Soul 
Sight" as a department of human wisdom, had recourse 
to Clairvoyance — the Clear Sight of the Ad ague tic sleep. 

They regarded the Clairvoyant, or "Clear-see~er," as a 
living entrance-door to the Sacred Temple of Inner Re- 
alities. They knew that to such an one the Internal be- 
comes without the use of the outer senses, more percepti- 
ble than the External is to us by the ordinary mode of 
objective perception. 

Pythagoras received his instruction in this subject in 
the Temples of Egypt, in which, as well as in those of 
ancient India, there are representations of individual be- 
ings put into the "magnetic sleep" by the same process 
which moderns have, of late years, discovered to be 
effective. 

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The family of Hippocrates, the "Father of Physic" 
were, it is recorded, ministers in the Temple of JEscula- 
pius, Hippocrates 3 knowledge of Clairvoyance is shown 
by the following passage — now no longer obscure — in 
his writings: "The sight being closed to the external, 
the soul perceives truly the affections and diseases of the 
body." This exactly states the case of the Clairvoyant. 
He used to treat some disorders by the application of 
the hands; in other words, he used to magnetise — or, as 
they in these days would say, Mesmerise — the patient, 
probably under Clairvoyant indications. 

Pythagoras himself, Iamblichus states, used this means 
to procure quiet sleep, with good and prophetic dreams. 
He even says, probably from analogous knowledge, that 
the art of Medicine originated in this "divine sleep" for 
Iamblichus speaks of being himself a subject of the mag- 
netic sleep. 

JEsculapius is said, according to Cicero, who wrote on 
this subject, to have uttered Oracles in the Temple Sleep, 
for the cure of the sick. 

If we turn to the Scriptures, we there learn many things 
in relation to this subject. Moses, it may be inferred, 
with other lore of the Egyptians, was instructed by their 
wise men in this magnetic science. We read of a youth 
being restored to life by a prophet; of an angel indicating 
the means of Tobias recovering his sight, etc. But the 
Scriptures being accessible to all, I need not refer further 
to them. 

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of history, also taught the system, and practised it, of 
healing by "laying on of hands" It may be inferred 
that they knew also of Hygienic Clairvoyance, which 
is but an advanced chapter out of the same book. 

The Romans, who received their philosophy from 
Greece, could not but be acquainted with this depart- 
ment of it; and so we read without surprise that, with 
them as with the Greeks, the sick used to be brought to 
the temples, where remedies were revealed by this means 
for their disorders. 

Celsus, the great Roman physician, according to Ascle- 
piades, was familiar with the science. Tacitus records 
that in obedience to a vision of the god Serapis, two men 
— one blind, and the other lame of an arm — had recourse 
to the Emperor Vespasian, at Alexandria, and they were 
cured by simple processes which we should call Magnetic 
Suetonius relates the same fact, circumstantially. 

Strabo speaks of a certain place on the Asian shore, 
consecrated to Pluto and Proserpine, to which the sick 
were brought to be prescribed for by the priests during 
the Magnetic Sleep. 

The Sibyls — virgin prophetesses of the Temple Of 
Jupiter; in other phrases, clairvoyants, under care of the 
priests of the temple — according to Saint Justin, declared 
many true things, and when the intelligence which ani- 
mated them was withdrawn, remembering nothing of 
what they had said. This describes Clairvoyance. 

I might also quote authorities to show that the Druid- 
esses of Britain and Gaul were Clairvoyantes, having 



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among their functions the hygienic one of discriminating 
and prescribing for disease. 

There has been, indeed, no nation, from the earliest 
times, without this science. But the knowledge of it was 
not solely in the possession of the temples and schools; 
but wherever deposited, this knowledge could only be 
expected to be found in the records of Philosophy. But 
when younger and barbarous nations overran Europe, 
philosophy was put into abeyance, and its records passed 
out of the light of day. From the darkness consequent 
upon their incursions slowly emerged other philosophies, 
all exhibiting incompleteness, until at length Europe and 
America are practically under the sway of one which is 
distinctively styled "Natural," from which the subject 
on which we are engaged is excluded. Of course this 
"Natural" philosophy is the opposite of a "Spiritual" 
philosophy, of which Clairvoyance is an item and ex- 
ponent. But parallel with the decadence of ancient 
philosophy and worship, there arose the new Christian 
religion, and something of that which the former lost was 
saved by the latter. 

The records, therefore, of our subject, which then be- 
came wanting in philosophy, are to be looked for in the 
archives of churches and religious institutions. And thus 
we find this subject in the middle ages intimately blended 
with that of religion in all the Christian nations. 

The churches in this matter succeeded the temples of 
the ancients, in which were consigned the traditions and 
the processes of Magnetism. There were the same cus- 



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toms of passing the nights in them, the same dreams, the 
same visions, the same cures. 

The Church in those days recognised practically "the 
gifts of spiritual healing/' as among those other gifts of 
the Spirit (i Cor. xii. 7-1 1), of which it held itself to be 
the sacred custodian. But whatever the subject gained 
under the sanction of the Church, was associated with 
religious faith rather than with science. Hence the dis- 
favor in which the records of it, by ecclesiastics, are held 
by our modern scientific professors. And when philoso- 
phy did find its way among churchmen, it was of the one- 
sided and sceptical kind which prevailed among the laity 
of the time, and thus with them also the subject fell into 
discredit. They agree with the lay philosophers in re- 
garding all such records as the "palpable falsehoods of 
exploded superstition." 

But however ready the general mind to ignore, or 
deny, the fine truths involved in this subject, there were 
facts of continual occurrence which could not but attract 
the attention of independent and original observers, and 
who, from time to time, endeavoured to claim for them 
a place in the philosophy of their day. 

A century before Mesmer's discovery, the Hindu Sages 
wrote: "Magnetism is in action everywhere; there is 
nothing new in it but the name; it is a paradox, strange 
and fantastical, only to those who are sceptical of every- 
thing, or who attribute to the power of the Devil that 
which they themselves cannot render account of" 

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auspices of the Hindu Adepts, that the revival of the 
philosophic study and application of Spiritual Clair- 
voyance is due. It is this Ancient School of the Orient 
which furnishes authentic testimony, abundant and var- 
ied, to the value and importance of my subject. Excel- 
lent contributions have been furnished it of late years by 
my own disciples and students both in Europe and 
America*. 

The advocates of Mesmeric science having established 
for it an acknowledgment of its applicability in numer- 
ous disorders, the writers just named, as some of the ad- 
vanced of that Eastern School, to have come forward to 
vindicate in due course, the higher claims of Spiritual 
Clairvoyance to scientific and public recognition. 

CLAIRVOYANCE OR GENERAL VISION. 

In the course of curing by Magnetism, some patients 
pass into an extraordinary state, which modern physiol- 
ogists call an "abnormal' ' one, and which state is 
variously divided, by careful observers, into certain as- 
cending degrees. 

As the patient advances in these degrees, so does he 
seem to recede from the sensuous world. 

This state, however, even in its lowest degree, cannot 
be induced in all patients; nor is an ascent in it, to the 
highest requisite for the recovery of health, for many 
patients remain only in the lowest degree during the whole 
of their Magnetic treatment up to their complete cure. 



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Some become more and more influenced by every suc- 
ceeding operation, progressively ascending to the highest ; 
others, though few, pass to the highest at once, and con- 
tinue in it, whenever operated upon, to the end of their 
cure. 

In the first degree the usual channels of access by which 
the soul communicates with the external world remain 
open; external sensation being intact, the subject per- 
ceives himself still in the ordinary sphere of things : this 
I call the— 

First Degree. Waking State. The next is the de- 
gree of 

Second Degree. Half Sleep. In it the eyes are 
closed, but the other senses are not entirely sealed. 

Third Degree. Magnetic Sleep. In which the pa- 
tient is as if stupified; but while thus standing, as it were, 
upon the verge of the world of sense, he still retains the 
recollection of actual, or sensuous life. 

Fourth Degree. Somnambulism. (Sleep-walking.) 
This degree is distinguishable from the preceding by the 
presence of consciousness. 

Fifth Degree. Self -Inspection. ( Introvision. ) 
In this degree the patient obtains a luminous knowledge 
of the interior state of his body and mind, diagnoses his 
complaint, and indicates the most effectual remedies for 
its cure. 

Sixth Degree. Clairvoyance, or General Vision. 
In the sixth degree the patient passes the bounds of his 
own corporeity and enters into rapport, or relation, with 



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objects in universal nature; the faculty of Intro vision 
becomes exalted into that of Extrovision (Clairvoy- 
ance), extending to and into objects and individualities, 
near and remote, in space and time. 

"The patient, in the Sixth Degree/' becomes abstracted 
from all things mean and terrestrial, and is exalted to 
the grandest and noblest sentiment ; he undergoes a trans- 
mutation of being; a spirit speaks through him, etc." But 
this extra-elevation above Clairvoyance clearly marks a 
"Seventh Degree" — that of Extasis, or Trance (from 
transitus animae — the passing of the soul to the Astral 
plain), that degree in which there is interior relation 
with the individualities and objects of the spiritual world, 
and which is largely treated of by the Hindu Adepts. 

This, however, merely in passing, for we have nothing 
to do at present with the subject of Spiritual Trance — 
we pause at that of Clairvoyance, that degree of the 
state in which the subject transcends the bounds of his 
own corporeity, and is able to enter into immediate rap- 
port with external objects and individuals of this world. 

With this definition of the faculty of Clairvoyance it 
will next be for us to consider some instances of it in 
exercise. 

Before doing this let us dwell a little upon the cry that 
the faculty in question is "abnormal" "morbid" more 
especially in cases where it occurs spontaneously, of the 
frequency of which we have abundant instances. 

The physiologist, par excellence, will systematise and 
ratiocinate from night till morn, and from morn till 



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night again, upon the perceptions and experience of his 
own five senses — nay, to strain a point, he will some- 
times argue his possession of a sixth; but beyond that — 
nothing! But man possesses not only the faculties of 
external perception and reason, but those of internal per- 
ception, of intuition and instinct of a higher degree, cor- 
responding to the intuition and instinct of all animated 
beings, and which are as serviceable to the species as is 
his observation of things by the external senses. 

Under the actuation of instinct, animals move from 
place to place, from region to region, and distinguish 
wholesome from noxious plants. By the same faculties 
in man, did he not, in the early times of the race, discover 
the qualities of many of our traditional medicines? In 
those early times those interior faculties seem to have 
been more active than that of reason; while in the times 
approaching our own, the faculty of reason has borne 
sway, and been more fostered. 

Nevertheless, the intuitive and instinctive faculties, be- 
ing as innate in man as in all animals, have ever been 
stronger or weaker, more or less active, guides of the 
race; but not being recognised by the esprit philosophe, 
the records of their activity appear only sparsely and ob- 
scurely in the annals of European civilisation — the cul- 
minating characteristic of which has been the cultivation 
of the sensuous and the rational. 

The "solid" school, which has arisen out of this cul- 
tivation, furnishes us with those who have been desig- 
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When such an one is called to a subject in any of the 
degrees of this extraordinary state, occurring spon- 
taneously he forthwith finds a name in his nosology with 
which to label it; tells people that the phenomena which 
strike them as singular are nothing more than the symp- 
toms of a "certain morbid condition" of the nervous sys- 
tem; and if his audience can appreciate him, he may talk 
about the "great sympathetic," and "reflex action," and 
"spine," and "brain," and, with a final "hope to set all 
right," makes a rush at his bottles. 

For the comfort of this class of patients, however, it 
should be said that since the days of Mesmer and Hahne- 
mann, there has been a gradual decrease in unanimity as 
to this "rush at the bottles." 

But there are materialist-homceopathists, so there are 
(mirabile dictu), materialist-mesmerists; the former go- 
ing to work against the "zoo-magnetic state," with his 
dynamised phosphorus perhaps ; the latter with his "cura- 
tive" passes and mesmerised water. With both of these, 
notwithstanding their higher methods, the extraordinary 
state is a morbid one to be cured. And so I leave them, 
for the present, to settle between themselves which of 
their processes is the better. 

Some foolish Psychologists infer from all its phe- 
nomena that Clairvoyance is a faculty common to hu- 
manity, but exercised by the being when in a certain state, 
which occurs spontaneously, but which may be induced by 
various agencies and means; that in this state the soul 
which perceives is more or less freed from its body ; that 



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the state is therefore a psychical or spiritual state. That 
this is but a rational inference, will be evident to all, who 
fearlessly contemplate the phenomena with the straight- 
forward look of truth-seekers, rather than with the ob- 
lique glance of those who love best their own foregone 
conclusions. 

Within the last few years the records of this faculty of 
Clairvoyance, spontaneous and induced, have been 
numerous. 

Although it is denied that Clairvoyance is a symptom 
of disorder, inasmuch as it presents itself in normal 
health, yet it is readily granted that it frequently presents 
itself where the subjects, always of the Nervous Tem- 
perament, have suffered from illness; though, even then, 
such illness may be an effect of a changing state from 
within, of the Nervous System; and more particularly if 
the patient has been subjected to the action of opium, can- 
nibas sativa, ethers, magnetism, etc., all of which aug- 
ment its sensibility. 

But indeed Clairvoyance presents itself in subjects in 
all states of health; verified instances of this are abun- 
dant enough to fill volumes. 

It is painful sometimes to contemplate the straining of 
some of our ' 'philosophers' ' in their efforts to debase 
every mental manifestation, above sensuous perception, 
into a symptom of organic disorder. With such "philoso- 
phers," genius would stand as delirium, poetry as insan- 
ity, inspiration as illusion, bringing their subjects prop- 
erly under the treatment of the doctor and druggist. 



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Clairvoyance is truly a department of the same high 
and interior function of the being as these, and to con- 
sign it to the correction of the pills of the old school, or 
trituration of the new, is about as rational as would have 
been the application of correctives to Pope's physical de- 
formity, because he wrote the "Essay on Man;" or to the 
blind bard's eyes because he wrote "Paradise Lost;" or 
as would have been the surreptitious mixing by Sweden- 
borg's housekeeper of physic in her master's coffee, be- 
cause he spoke of things unseen by mortal eye. Clair- 
voyance, the symptom of bodily disorder! Look at the 
Hindu Sage in whom the faculty is in continuous exer- 
cise for years. But the faculty, like other faculties, may 
be too continuously exercised. Look at other Clairvoy- 
ants of the Orient, in whom organic health has been al- 
most undisturbed since they have regularly exercised this 
faculty, and it must be agreed that there is no connection 
necessarily between the questions of Clairvoyance and 
Health. Indeed, ill-health operates against the exercise 
of the faculty in those in whom it is developed. The 
Clairvoyante of the greatest lucidity I have ever known, 
in questions connected with health, on one occasion, when 
her health had received a shock from some sudden excite- 
ment, was not able to pass into the state even of Intro- 
vision until she was convalescent; nor could she resume 
her clairvoyant examinations until she had regained her 
ordinary good health. 

The psychological or spiritual school holds that every 
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spiritual or monadial entity; that having its origin in, 
it must necessarily have continuous relations with, the 
spiritual or monadial plane of existence, as well as with 
the material or sensuous plane in which it is made to de- 
velop itself; that each, according to species, etc., evolves 
from its monadial centre an essential aura, which has 
positive and negative magnetoid relations with the essen- 
tial aura of every other. 

Magnetic attraction and repulsion exhibit a strong 
analogy with magnetic attraction and repulsion. Analo- 
gous attraction and repulsion obtains not only between 
individuals of the same but of different species, not only 
in animate, but in inanimate nature. 



CHAPTER V. 
BEHIND THE VEIL— THE TRANCE SLEEP. 

Illustrations And Cases Of Clairvoyance. 

The facts here brought forward lead the mind ration- 
ally to the conclusions arrived at by the Hindu Sages — 
conclusions harmonious with those of earlier philoso- 
phers, however variously expressed in terms, namely, 
that all the beings and objects of Nature act and react 
dynamically (monadially or spiritually) upon each other; 
that it is the spirit which dynamically acts and reacts in 
the body ; that the action of medicines is dynamical upon 
the spirit of the patient. 

In July, 191 5, I invited some private students to be 
present during the investigation by a Clairvoyante (Mrs. 
B., a former student of mine), through the natural 
faculty possessed by her in an eminent degree of dynam- 
ically perceiving and distinguishing objects. It had been 
proposed to magnetise her, but she said it was not neces- 
sary to be in the sleep to exercise her dynamic faculty : 
by collecting herself, and willingly, she could perceive the 
qualities and magnetoid relations of objects. Our prepa- 
rations and arrangements having been made beforehand 
the Clairvoyante was invited into the room. She entered, 
and approached the table, on which were placed under 
separate papers, a few inches apart, the following sub- 

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stances: Bismuth, silver, gold, copper. I had made 
some transverse passes over each to remove all foreign 
effluences from them. Putting her hand upon the paper 
covering the bismuth, she said, "This feels something like 
zinc, but I am not sure." Leaving that, she moved her 
hand over the paper covering the silver; she said, "Sil- 
ver is there ; it burns, because it is so near to this, which 
must be gold." Her mistaking the bismuth for zinc, she 
said, was its being too near to the copper. On bringing 
her hand over the paper concealing the copper it became 
cramped and distorted. To relieve this I made trans- 
verse passes over the hand and arm, but in vain. "De- 
magnetise the copper" she said. I made transverse 
passes over the copper, and the cramp of the hand ceased 
after a few moments. It must be remembered I had made 
passes over the copper at the commencement. She said 
that the metals had all been placed too near each other; 
that any two metals, she had found, made a battery ; the 
positive with the metals negative to them. She remarked 
incidently that the sun's rays were the most effective in 
restoring the proper magnetism to metals; and that ac- 
cording to her observations all medicines make batteries 
with each other — in other words, have positive and nega- 
tive dynamical relations. Her faculty not appearing to 
be sufficiently free from external influence, it was pro- 
posed she should be put into "the Hindu Magnetic sleep." 
For this purpose, on the present occasion, she selected 
my magnetism, as it was about her since my attempt to 
free her indirectly from the effluence of the copper. 



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But before magnetising her she wished me to remove 
my watch chain, as the effluence from that might affect 
her; the copper she said had made her feel combative. 
She passed "behind the veil, into a trance" as the Hindus 
term it, after being hypnotized by a certain "Secret Hindu 
Method"* 

As soon as she showed by her condition, that she was 
in a deep "trance state," I proposed that the students 
present should place themselves en rapport with her, by 
touching her hand. 

"No," she said, "I see and hear you well enough" 

This was not unusual, and the reason was not asked; 
for it lay in the fact of all present being friendly with 
her, and earnest inquirers into the subject. 

She then at once reached her hand to a lady — an in- 
valid recovering from paralytic affection — and said, "In 
extreme cases of paralysis a battery like one of these 
might be worn on the arm, and one of copper and zinc on 
the thigh, for the battery on the arm will not affect the 
legs." 

Her hand here accidently touched the brass moulding, 
lined with lead, on the arm of the chair she was in; she 
shook her hand, blew on it, and said, "that has a strong 
current." "There should be a change from time to time; 
the zinc should sometimes be in contact with the skin, 
and at other times the copper; the zinc should touch the 

* This famous Secret Hindu Method of Hypnotizing, which is known only 
to Dr. de Laurence, is given away free, but only to those who send us 
an order from our Catalogue, for one of Dr. de Laurence's books on Hyp- 
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copper at the edges, but not in the centre. These direc- 
tions are for a dark person; if fair, reverse the order. In 
many cases of the loss of the use of the leg and arm, the 
paralysis is from congestion in the tissues of the brain; 
in such cases the best battery would be a film of platina 
on a zinc foundation, with thin paper interposed. Lead 
and brass make a good battery for some cases also. Mrs. 
R., one of the ladies present, should have a thin sheet of 
brass to her feet, and thin lead to the nape of her neck, 
and the places to which the metals are applied should be 
washed at times with camphor water. She would be bet- 
ter in a fortnight.' , 

The Clairvoyante was at this stage awakened from her 
trance. While she rested, Mr. R. and the students present 
were comparing notes as to the process by which the Mind 
took cognisance and dynamically valued objects. One 
said that the mind seemed to him to have the power of 
polarising itself to objects, and of receiving impressions 
from them, and more, which I do not remember. In the 
meantime Mrs. B., the Clairvoyante, who had appeared 
to be listening to the conversation, had passed unobserved 
into a ''trance sleep" and broke in with, "Pardon me, 
the whole operation is spiritual; from the time of your 
willing to magnetise the subject to sleep, the vital elec- 
tricity of the operator is only made use of as a medium 
for the spirit to convey his own magnetism to operate 
upon him or her, and whom you then call Clairvoyant 
A spirit, or spirits, hover over and conduct the operations, 
and bring the spirit of the subject into relation with that 



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of the things under examination/' I simply state this 
here, what the Clairvoyant said, and the words may be 
taken for the truth. 

I said, "You told us just now that spirits take part 
in these inquiries, may I ask who are now favoring us?" 
She replied at once, "Dr. Nezix and another Hindu." I 
thought this very singular. 

Dr. Nezix, of a Bombay Hospital, was physician to the 
Street Dispensary. I had ten years subse- 
quently, attended the practice of Dr. Nezix at the Bombay 
Hospital — particulars quite unknown to Mrs. B. in her 
normal state. 

"Do they remember me ?" 

"Dr. Nezix says he remembers you from Bombay, 
India, the other Hindu is reminded of you by Dr. Nezix; 
he did not remember you at first" 

I took the words of the Clairvoyante for the truth. I 
said I was happy to be thus remembered, and would take 
the opportunity of asking their present view of the modus 
operandi of medicines, as they used to administer them. 

The answer was at once given : 

"As a battery with the mucous tissue of the stomach, 
the excitant being the acid or alkali in the stomach." 

Mrs. B., having been in "the trance sleep" the pre- 
scribed time, she was restored to the ordinary state. 

At our next sitting, Mrs. B., being put to sleep in the 
usual manner by her husband (who attended to conduct 
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placed on the table. She took up one box, and said, "Sil- 
ver is here; it makes my mouth fill with water." 

"De-magnetise the metal, and give me the antimony; it 
antidotes the silver" 

Presently she threw these aside, and reached another 
of the boxes; opened it, took out the metal, and put it 
into her mouth. 

She said, "This metal (it was Nickel) is very good 
for fits. It should be prepared by trituration. But the 
patient should be carefully watched while taking it, for it 
will produce salivation; it will antidote Mercury. It is 
good for Epileptic Fits, whether produced by the irritation 
of worms or otherwise." 

She then gave directions as to the dose, with respect 
to age and sex. The exactness of the mode of prepar- 
ing it for medicinal use was singular, and would do 
credit to the very "spirit" of Dr. Nezix, about whom she 
knew absolutely nothing. It is, omitting repetitions, as 
follows, word for word : 

"Take six grains of the nickel, and, having treated it 
in the usual way for triturating metal, digest it in a little 
alcohol for one hour; then triturate again for an hour 
all one way, thus (moving the hand, holding an ideal 
pestle, from left to right circularly) ; then shake for an 
hour with ten ounces of alcohol. All this to be done by 
one person ; he should cover the cork with his right hand, 
and at every succussion bring down the bottom of the 
bottle into the left palm. One drop of this tincture would 
be an average dose. 



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An overdose of it would be antidoted with homoeo- 
pathic (dynamised) mercury. 

"There is not one case in ten where fits would not be 
removed by one or two drops every hour with a tea- 
spoonful of water, abating as the symptoms diminished. 

"Bah! it tastes bad. Give me the silver; silver anti- 
dotes nickel as well as mercury. 

"When nickel, in some rare cases, does not cure, Mag- 
netism will, if care is had to the relative temperament of 
the Mesmeriser and patient. When I go away, I shall 
call at the drug store up here, and get an ice cream soda; 
it will relieve the effects of these metals." 

Here I awakened her from the Clairvoyante sleep. 

The regularity of our Occult work was interrupted by 
engagements on one side or the other. 

At our next class, however, on being put "to sleep" 
with the same metals before her, she took the nickel and 
said, "I told you nickel was good for fits, but it will also 
produce inflammation of the throat and eyes. If you 
were to give it after mercury you would produce a bat- 
tery which would excite the carotids; to counteract which 
effect arsenicum would be required, in sensible, not infini- 
tesimal doses. It would produce inflammation of the 
surface of the lungs, of the appearance of erysipelas; the 
symptoms for administering it curatively would be sen- 
sations of heat and tingling. 

"I have told you how to prepare a tincture, but I see 
that you might give in Epilepsy large doses of the third 
trituration of it. In bad cases a dose every two hours, 



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until a sensible effect appeared; then lengthened the in- 
tervals until a decided change is produced. Then give 
the mercurius twice a-day for two days ; afterwards hepar 
sulphuris" 

The same sitting she went through a similar examina- 
tion of bismuth, and particularised its therapeutic uses. 

August 31st. — After being put "to sleep" she said, 
"when you put me to sleep for metals don't stand so near 
me as when for other things." 

"Very well. What will you look at this evening ?" 

"Manganese." 

The manganese was handed to her, and the other 
metals were removed. 

"Doctor de Lawrence,' ' she said, "this sends the blood 
up to the head. It is good for insane patients. And it 
produces congestion and torpor of the venous system." 

At this moment my son came hastily in with a message 
to me; he said, "That second dose of oil has not acted, 
and they want to know what to do." 

The Clairvoyante turned sharply round and said, "Give 
an enema, to be sure." 

I said, "Ah, perhaps you will leave the manganese, and 
look at the case ?" 

"Yes." (After a pause) — "I am ready. Touch Dr. 
Robert's hand; he is fresh from the patient." 

She did so. "Oh, it's a little girl" 

"Yes; what is the matter with her?" 

"It is bad indigestion; she's swallowed a plum-stone." 

"Do you perceive it?" 



72 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

"Yes ; it is in what I call the second stomach — what you 
call the duodenum. That is in an irritable state; and as 
it contracts upon the plum-stone, it is thrown into pain 
and spasm. It is going into inflammation.' ' 

"What should be done?" 

"Give now an enema of warm water, and place the pa- 
tient in a hot bath. Afterwards administer aconite." 

"Thank you. Will you leave the child now and come 
back to the manganese?" 

"Yes, as soon as I take her back to her home." 

"Now then for the manganese." 

With respect to this incident, it is to be remarked that 
Mrs. B. knew nothing, in her ordinary state, of this lit- 
tle girl, nor any of the particulars which she clearly 
perceived. I had been called to attend the girl in the 
morning of the same day, and found her suffering colicky 
pains, and suspecting the presence of some foreign body 
in the intestines, though not of a plum-stone, I directed 
a dose of castor oil to be given ; to be repeated if required. 
On inquiry next day, there appeared good reason to be- 
lieve that the Clairvoyante perceived truly in this case. 

With respect to the Clairvoyante "taking back" the 
child in idea, it is to be remarked that she generally ex- 
pressed herself in the same way with respect to children 
whom she had examined at a distance. I imagine it to 
mean, that in detaching her own rapport with the child, 
she sees that the mother's rapport is intact. 

She resumed her discourse about the manganese thus : 

"If you are called to a patient who has been drinking 



SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 73 

excessively, give him, if a strong man, one drop of the 
first dilution every two hours, until better ; then lengthen 
the intervals to six hours; then lessen the dose. While 
giving manganese, keep the bowels in action with the first 
trituration of sulphur. This manganese makes me feel 
very lazy; we'll leave it now, please/' 

Here we will now take leave of the metals for the 
present. 

I remarked at the outset that it is not for me to dis- 
cuss here the question of trance; nevertheless a few words 
at this point may not be amiss, with respect to what the 
Clairvoyante said about the intervention of spirits in the 
phenomena under examination. 

In the first place, let us keep in mind that we, in the ma- 
terial or earthly body, are as really spirits as those who 
have vacated this mortal frame. 

Secondly, that Clairvoyance is thus a faculty, exercised 
by a human spirit clothed in a body. 

Thirdly, that the body of the subject should ever be in 
health for the exercise of the lucid faculty. 

Fourthly, that, as is well known, the faculty in any 
individual is, like other faculties, strengthened by the 
regular and reasonable exercise of it, 

Fifthly, that the faculty is of a prominently hereditary 
character in some families. 

Keeping these several points in mind, we cannot help 
recognizing in Clairvoyance an undoubted exercise of the 
individual's own faculty and powers of perception — 
spiritual, and at the same time natural. Of this exer- 



74 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

cise, we find more or less perfect examples in proportion 
to the more or less complete magnetoid detachment from 
the sensuous plane; the most complete resulting in an in- 
version of the psychical polarity of the subject, evidenced 
by the remarkable fact of the spirit transferring impres- 
sions from outer objects to the body in opposition to the 
ordinary course of the body conveying them to the spirit. 

Mrs. B. was on one occasion the means of saving 
human life under the following circumstances: — 

Mr. John Raymond, automobile dealer, was a neigh- 
bor of Mrs. B. and used to bring in friends to put her 
Clairvoyance to the test. One day, in making a casual 
call, in conversation he remarked he had somehow 
injured his watch. While he was there Mrs. B. was put 
to sleep, and she, without suggestion, referred to his 
watch, and asked him what he expected if he was so 
foolish as to pick the works with a pin? 

"Do you mean to say that you see that I have done so ?" 

"Yes." 

"If you really see the interior of the watch what is 
its number ?" 

She gave the number, consisting of half the figures of 
the numeration table. On comparison it was found cor- 
rect. Mr. Raymond expressed his astonishment. 

"I am able to tell you something better worth know- 
ing than that," said the Clairvoyante. "I see something 
that is likely to happen to your son George; he is likely 
to be bitten by a cross dog, and if he is, he'll die." 

"What dog?" 



SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 75 

"He's a mischievous boy, and he'll poke the dog with 
a stick, and I see the stick he is likely to use; it is a 
hooked one; it is in a stack of timber in a shed in your 
yard." 

"But what dog I ask ? I have no dog." 

"Oh, the dog will be sent to you — he is a spotted dog; 
he will come in a crate from Philadelphia; a friend will 
send him to you. If he comes, the boy will be likely to 
worry him with the stick, and if so it will lead to the 
boy's death." 

Now, Mr. Raymond expected no dog; but on his re- 
turn home found a letter awaiting him, informing him 
that a dog would be sent by a sporting friend of his, liv- 
ing at Philadelphia, Pa.; for him to take care of. He 
also found the hooked stick as pointed out by the Clair- 
voyante, and his son claimed it as his play-stick. He saw 
the possibility and probability of mischief accruing if 
Master George and the dog came together, and, like a 
reasonable man, deliberated with his wife, who immedi- 
ately telegraphed to Philadelphia and found that a dog 
was actually about to be desptached; that he was a 
spotted, high-bred pointer, fierce, and very likely to bite 
if poked with a stick; that he was about to be put in a 
crate to be forwarded by express. 

In this case the Clairvoyante perceived the cause of an 
impending evil, and thus enabled the boy's parents to 
avert it. This is a valuable instance of the exercise of 
the Clairvoyant faculty. 

Ancient Occultism recognized a reciprocal influence 



76 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

among all entities; between the Earth and all the natur- 
ally-formed things and beings on it, and between these 
and the sun, moon, planets, stars — the visible bodies of 
the macrocosm. It also included among entities, invis- 
ible or spiritual beings, under various names, to whom it 
accorded a greater or lesser influence among the entities 
of the Earth. The foundations of this philosophy were 
laid by seers, prophets, oracles — those who were pre- 
eminently subject of the "divine sleep," the trance. Upon 
the breaking up of ancient civilization the philosophy 
disappeared, except so much as was, in its spiritual part, 
purified in India ; and as it was, in its scientific part, f rag- 
mentarily caught up by students of natural philosophy, of 
whom we have examples in the greater or lesser lights of 
the so-called "dark ages," and— approaching more mod- 
ern days — in Paracelsus, Van Helmont, Friar Bacon, 
and many others. 

In the early Christian Church the influence and action 
of spiritual beings, for the purposes of health (as, for 
instance, in the Bible story of the troubling of the waters 
of a certain pool by an angelic being), were as much 
acknowledged by worshippers as in the temples of their 
ancestors. This acknowledgment is still made by some 
sects of the Church, and doubtless whatever individual 
opinion may be held regarding the general tenets of 
Roman Catholicism, its recognition of spiritual or 
angelic ministrations, represents the truth concerning this 
matter. But when literary Europe accepted the canons 
of criticism laid down by Hume and Voltaire, all this 



SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 77 

was gradually and erroneously set down as bygone super- 
stition, and it was held that everything not sensuously 
present was — in all future time — to be treated as non- 
existent. A greater delusion was never promulgated; 
yet such was the effect of this materialistic teaching that 
men have, even to the present time, deliberately closed 
their eyes against the truth, and at the end of the nine- 
teenth century are still floundering in the "darkness" 
which they have fondly attributed to the past. Even the 
Medical profession have for many years flouted and 
opposed the truths of Mesmerism, to such an extent 
indeed that even men of their own colleges — such, for 
instance, as the famous Dr. John Elliots on, M. A., L. R. 
C. P., etc., who was in recent years hounded to death in 
London for his noble and daring advocacy of Phren- 
ology and Mesmerism. Only now is the truth once 
more dawning, and under the name of Hypnotism a 
force long opposed is being gradually accepted and 
applied by such men as Professor Charcot, Dr. Lloyd 
Tuckey, and others. 

Literature and criticism were in the before-mentioned 
condition when Mesmer, upon whom the mantle of Van 
Helmont had indirectly fallen, revived a part of the old 
philosophy, viz., the reciprocal influence of all visible 
entities. He demonstrated that a correspondent prop- 
erty to that of polarity and inclination in the loadstone 
was possessed by man and other beings. To this mag- 
netism he applied the name of "Animal" — to distinguish 
it in use from the Mineral kind. Tracing disturbance 



78 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

of health in many cases to disturbance of Magnetic 
polarity, he and his followers showed that by restoring 
polarity health might be frequently restored. Patients 
treated by magnetism sometimes pass into a new state. 
This state was found to be divisible into various de- 
grees. 

In the ultimate degrees of this state the patient passes 
the bounds of corporeity and enters into rapport with 
other objects and individualities, near and remote in 
space and time — these are Clairvoyance and Trance. 
The nerve-organism of the human being taken as a whole 
is bi-polar — the Brain-system representing one pole, the 
Ganglionic-system the other; the two systems being inter- 
laced by reciprocating nerve-chords and nerve-plexuses 
into one system. In our ordinary day-life the Brain- 
system is positive, and the Ganglionic negative. In our 
ordinary night-life the Ganglionic-system is positive, 
and the Brain-system is negative. 

The Brain-system is the focal apparatus of Sensation 
and Will. The Ganglionic that of Intuition, Instinct, and 
Sympathy. Facts demonstrate that these apparatuses are 
the immediate concrete instruments of the Soul, by which 
it has polar organic relations with the material sphere, 
and thus on the natural plane is made to move spiritual 
man, who — through the soul — has polar relations also 
with the spiritual sphere, as manifested in the phenomena 
of Clairvoyance and Trance. In Clairvoyance, and in 
trance especially, we witness a passing from activity on 
the external plane of conscious being to that on an 



SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 79 

internal; in other words, the essential being is polarised 
from the natural to the spiritual plane ; the vito-magnetic 
currents ceasing, more or less, to circulate through the 
external nerves, few impressions, or none, are trans- 
mitted from without to the brain, but to the organic seat 
of Instinct and Intuition. In most subjects the 
Perceptive Powers, are intensified, and there is, with 
clear sight of mundane individualities, spiritual Clair- 
voyance and perhaps Clair audience. The degree of 
change thus effected by this spiritual polarisation is deter- 
mined by the idiosyncrasy of the subject; but that, with 
the will of the operator and circumstantial conditions, 
has also to be taken into account. 

Under some operators subjects will exhibit only the 
phenomena of Mundane Clairvoyance, while under 
others they will seem to exhibit the illumination of 
ancient seer ship. This chance in the direction of the 
vito-magnetic forces of the soul, may be induced in sen- 
sitive subjects, not only by the magnetic process, but also 
by the day's exhaustion of sensibility, irritability, and 
will ; by various drugs, or by wish or passivity, recipro- 
cating, consciously or unconsciously, with the action of 
another, visible or invisible. 

For the purpose of explaining hidden states or causes 
of disorders, and of searching for hitherto unknown 
remedies in nature, the induction of the Trance state by 
Hindu Hypnotism is usual, and perhaps best. Clairvoy- 
ants, who perceive not only remote objects on the spir- 
itual plane, may be expected to be affected by the moral 



80 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

states of persons, and also by the essential qualities of 
naturally- formed things. 

Every object of the external world — as ancient phi- 
losophers taught — whether earth or metal, vegetable or 
animal, including the human, has its monadial or soul- 
substance perceptible to a correspondent faculty of the 
human being, when in the state under review. These 
monadial or soul-substances — otherwise called by various 
authors, "vital" "sympathial" "aural" "aromal" "es- 
sential" — have magnetic or polar relations with every 
other, constituting the basis of sympathy or antipathy. 
Clairvoyants perceive the vapours, rays, or lines of some 
concordantly intersecting or blending with each other, 
while they perceive others, on the contrary, constantly 
repelling. 

They perceive further that each organ of the body has 
its proper magnetism, and that in the infinitude of 
natural things there are those who have a magnetism in 
correspondence with the magnetism of one or other 
organ. Human magnetism blends with that of water, 
producing a resultant of definite activity. Its blending 
with that of simple drugs explains the activity of the 
preparations used in Homoeopathy, inert except where 
there is polar reactivity to their action. 

The human being — the ultimate of Nature, the micro- 
cosm, the universe in small — has, we learn, combined in 
him the elements of the macrocosm — the universe; all 
monadial qualities and forces, all loves and wills — chem- 
ical, vegetable, animal — are in him epitomised; he has 



SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 81 

thus, in his physical organism, rapport or relation with 
every being and object in visible nature, and, in the con- 
stitution of his soul, with beings and objects of the 
invisible world, even, as we are also divinely assured, 
unto the Father and Author of All. 

Clairvoyants inform us it is the aura of a drug, and 
not its atoms, that constitutes the virtue of the high dilu- 
tions, and state that with this aura the preparer's mag- 
netic fluid blends. 

In selecting the proper medicine, or its dose, the Clair- 
voyante, sensitive usually with one hand, touches the 
patient's, while with the other she touches the phials 
which have been chosen and placed before her, to the 
proper one of which it is attracted, often strongly; she 
then seems mentally to balance or measure the medicine 
against the patient. Sometimes she will say there is a 
better medicine for the case, but does not know the name. 
Other medicines being submitted, they are selected in 
the same manner. Having once been en rapport with a 
patient in person, a small lock of hair, a piece of clean 
cloth on which the patient has breathed, a glove, or any 
article which has been in contact with the subject, will 
afterwards suffice to reinduce the original connection 
between the Seer and his subject. 



CHAPTER VI. 
MAGNETIC CLAIRVOYANCE. 

In the course of my Occult and Spiritual work, I have 
noticed incidentally the fact that Clairvoyance, so inter- 
esting in all its phases to psychologists, is sometimes 
induced, as well as Clair audience, by spiritual operation. 
The subjects of this kind of Clairvoyance are ecstatics, 
properly so called. This department, as Spiritual Clair- 
voyance, properly forms the topic for divines to write 
about rather than physicians. Clairvoyance is sometimes 
remotely induced by the operation of natural objects. 
Koener, Reichenbach, Ashburner — his annotator — and 
others, have demonstrated that some subjects have their 
normal polarity disturbed, more or less completely in- 
verted, by the action of natural objects upon them. This 
department, as natural Clairvoyance, properly belongs 
to natural philosophers, and we shall hail the day when 
they recognize it as being in their domain. 

Clairvoyance, embraced by physical science, and prop- 
erly induced by medical art by various means, but chief 
of all by human magnetism, is the department which, as 
Hygienic Clairvoyance, falls naturally within the prov- 
ince of the physician. This faculty, enabling the per- 
ceiving soul to come, while still in the body, into rapport 
with the inner forms, qualities, and states of other 

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SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 83 

beings, and temporal things, enables the student to inves- 
tigate all natural objects for hygienic purposes. 

In saying this nothing hypothetical or doubtful is 
declared. The faculty, employed from the earliest ages, 
has been used for years past by very many of note, for 
the intuitive perception of diseases, remedies, and anti- 
dotes; in the discerning of which, the subject in the 
Clairvoyant state is monadially or spiritually affected by 
the monadial or spiritual properties of the objects under 
examination. 

The distinctive advantages presented by the employ- 
ment of Hygienic Clairvoyance, to the patient and the 
student, are: 

1st. Exactness of diagnosis in exploring the seat of any 
internal disorder, and in obviating the employment 
of the doubtful stethoscope, the objectionable 
speculum, etc. 

2nd. The exact discrimination of Temperament and 
Constitutional peculiarity, and correspondingly 
exact adaptation of medicine and dose. 

3rd. Exact appreciation of the Moral state and its con- 
dition as cause or consequence of the physical 
disorder. 

4th. The subjective symptoms — those felt only by the 
patient — becoming objective to the physician 
through the clairvoyant's perception. 

These are advantages which cannot but be appre- 
ciated; and not more by the patient than by the honest 



84 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

physician. For how often is he not obliged to confess 
that ordinary discrimination is at fault? We all know 
that the most acute physicians err sometimes in their 
diagnosis, even when aided by the best contrivances 
invented by ingenuity; and where there is error in diag- 
nosis there is necessarily error in treatment. 

How often do we meet with cases where, from inevi- 
table error of diagnosis, a system of mere palliation has 
been prescribed on the ground of impossibility of cure. 

Such are the cases against which, under Divine Provi- 
dence, the physician can successfully cope by the light 
and aid of Hygienic Clairvoyance. 



HINDU METHOD OF INDUCING CLAIRVOYANCE. 

1. Room should have a subdued light in it. 

2. Hindu Magic Mirror*, placed on a stand, or table, 
with its back towards the North. 

3. Subject sits facing Magic Mirror, about three feet 
away from it. 

4. The operator should take a position directly behind 
the Magic Mirror so he can look straight into the 
subject's eyes. In this position both the reflected 
rays of light from the black surface of the Magic 



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SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 85 

Mirrorj, and the Magnetism from the operator's 
eyes will go straight into the subject's eyes. 

5. Operator proceeds to Magnetise Magic Mirror by 
making downward passes over it for three minutes. 

6. The subject is to be seated in a chair having all its 
legs fully insulated, by placing glass or rubber under 
its legs, and having subject's feet resting on an insu- 
lated stool. 

7. No part of the subject's body, his clothes or the legs 
of the chair should be allowed to touch the floor. 

8. Not a soul must be in the North end of the room. 

9. Any other person present must remain quietly seated 
in the South, East or West portion of the room. 

10. No animal (not even a cat or dog) must be present 
in the room. 

11. One soft and gentle chord, if convenient, may be 
played on the piano, but no other on the same 
evening. 

12. Previous to the experiment the Magic Mirror should 
be well polished, and then sprinkled with a good 
Oriental Perfume. After this it should be dried and 
again polished with an entirely clean cloth. 

13. After the subject has been seated facing the Magic 
Mirror the operator should burn a small amount of 
Oriental Temple Incense. After This Be Careful. 

14. The operator now takes a position directly back of 

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86 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

the Magic Mirror, fixing his gaze steadily and 
intensely on the subject's eyes, all the while making 
downward passes in the direction of the subject's 
face and head. 
15. If the above is faithfully carried out by a good 
strong Magnetic Operator the subject should shortly 
pass into a Magnetic Sleep and exhibit the most re- 
markable powers of Inner Vision or Clairvoyance. 

MAGNETIC CLAIRVOYANCE INDUCED. 

Magnetic Clairvoyance may be induced by: First — 
Burning a half teaspoonful of Oriental Temple Incense. 
The very same being a powerful fumigation to attract 
the spirits of the Astral Plane; so it is believed through- 
out India and the Orient. The Disciple may also use, 
on his or her garments a small amount of genuine Orien- 
tal Perfume; such as "Vale of Kashmar Perfume." 
Magnetic Clairvoyance may be self -induced by your 
using a Crystal for thirty or forty minutes daily or sev- 
eral times a week; but you must not get easily discour- 
aged, for with some it takes weeks of practice, while 
with others it takes several months. 

By observing the following you will be helped in your 
development. Besides the above method for inducing 
Magnetic Clairvoyance, the student will find included 
herein the famous HINDU METHOD OF INDUCING 
CLAIRVOYANCE. There is also given a very 
ANCIENT METHOD OF INDUCING CLAIRVOY- 
ANCE. This latter method is more complicated than 



SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 87 

either of the others, but the student may take his choice 
and use which he believes the best suited to his con- 
venience. There is one thing that should be borne in 
mind, and that is, that it is absolutely necessary that you 
burn some Temple Incense from time to time, and that 
you use a genuine Oriental Perfume, as these things are 
essential to success. Those who are easily discouraged, 
weak of will and do not apply themselves diligently, will 
never succeed; for success is only obtained by paying 
strict attention to that referred to herein. 

All Clairvoyants should, to be useful, successful and 
enduring, cultivate the habit of Deep Breathing, for all 
Mental Power depends largely upon Lung Power and 
concentration. Continued ability cannot exist if deep 
breathing is neglected. 

All Clairvoyants should feed on the best food 
obtainable. 

Clairvoyants must exercise great caution in matters 
relative to the procreative functions. Abstinence in this 
direction is good, and total abstinence is still better. An 
error in this direction is fatal to clear vision, and may 
cause a lengthened suspension of power. 

Rapid breathing, forcibly, for 90 seconds, while lying 
down, in connection with a Gazing Crystal held in the 
hand, will prove successful in enabling you to see with- 
out eyes, if you are a good subject. 

All magnetic, odyllic and mesmeric processes are 
twenty times more productive of successful results if 
conducted in a quiet room. 



88 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

FOR ATTAINING CRYSTAL VISION. 

Food. — Daily diet should be very light. Fruit, Tea, Cof- 
fee, Milk, may be freely used, but no Chocolate, 
Fat, Oysters or Pastry, and very little Sugar. 

Fasting. — Strict fasting for at least four hours before 
using the Crystal is advantageous to the success 
of the experimenter. 

Linen must be often changed. 

Skin, Head and Hair must be kept scrupulously clean. 
The bath is the very best preparation for experi- 
ments, and no one can reach good results unless 
perfectly and absolutely clean. 

Patience is a most necessary qualification. 

Silence. — Perfect stillness should be observed when using 
the Crystal. 

Time. — Usually allow thirty to forty minutes for attain- 
ing a Crystal vision. In some cases one or two 
hours have been known to elapse before any result 
was obtained. 
What is the difference between — - 

(a) Clairvoyance; 

(b) Psychometry; 

(c) Intuition? 

Answer. — The first Sees, more or less distinctly. 

The second Feels, with greater or less 

intensity. 
The third Knows — leaps at results at a 

single bound. 



SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 89 

Clairvoyance depends upon a peculiar condition of the 
Brain and Nerves. It is compatible with the most robust 
health, though sometimes the accompaniment of dis- 
ordered nerves. 

There are three principal matters with which it is 
necessary to make yourselves acquainted, viz. : — 

(a) The exact method how, 

(b) The precise spot where, 

(c) The proper time when, 

to apply the specific Magnetic Current to any particular 
individual, in order to produce luicidity, or the Trance 
sleep. 



WHAT PROPORTIONS OF PERSONS CAN 
BECOME CLAIRVOYANT? 

As a broad rule 75 out of 100 can become partly lucid. 

63 in 100 can become Sensitives. 

45 " " can reach the 2nd degree of Clairvoyance. 

32 " " can reach the 3rd " " 

14 " " can reach the 4th 

5 " " can reach the 5th " " 

2 " " can reach the 6th " " 

Of 100 men, 56 can become Seers. 

Of 200 women, 180 can become Seer esses. 



90 SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE 

KINDS OF CLAIRVOYANCE. 

There are various kinds as well as degrees of Clairvoy- 
ance — Natural, Medical, Social, Intellectual, Practical, 
Purely Mental, Ethereal and Divine, General, Special 
(as in Religion, Philosophy, Science, Art, Education, 
Love, etc.); Introspection (past); Inspection (present); 
Projection (future); Mind Reading. 

All true Genius is more or less Clairvoyant, but of 
course, it does not necessarily follow that all Clairvoy- 
ants are geniuses. 



EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED. 

Abeyance — Expectant, awaiting. 

Abnormal — Unusual. 

Abstracted — Absent, inattentive, separated. 

Accruing — Arising ; increasing. 

Aconite — Common monkshood. 

^Esculapius — The ancient "Father of Medicine," 

Alkali — Anti-acid. 

Alphonse Teste — French writer on Mesmerism. 

Analogy — Similarity; likeness. 

Annals — Records. 

Annotator — A writer of notes, or comments. 

Antidotes — Internal remedy, anti-poison. 

Antipathy — Dislike ; antagonism. 

Armature — The "keeper" of a magnet 

Arsenicum — Arsenic. 

Arterial — Pertaining to the largest blood vessels which carry the 

scarlet blood. 
Asclepiades — A celebrated physician of Bithynia. 
Ashburner (John) — A London medical man and writer. 
Aubrey — An author of the 17th century. 
Aura — Emanation from the body, and surrounding it like an 

atmosphere. 
Auspices — Omens; protection or influence. 
Avert — To prevent. 
Bi-polar — Having two poles. 

Bismuth — A brittle brilliant reddish-white mineral. 
Canons — Rules or laws. 
Carotids — Great arteries of the head or neck. 

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92 GLOSSABY 

" Centre"— A nervous localised spot or " organ " in the brain. 

Circuit — A circular course. 

Clairaudience — Exalted power of hearing. 

Cognisance — Knowledge. 

Colicky — Acute, griping, abdominal pain. 

Compatible — Agreeable. 

Conception — Imagination; comprehension; holding within the mind. 

Concordantly — In agreement or harmony. 

Concrete — Concentrated; one whole. 

Corporeity — The state of having a body. 

Culminating — Ending ; rising to the vertical point. 

David Hume — A Scottish philosopher and historian. Born, Edinburgh 

171 1 ; died, 1776. 
Diagnosis — Art of distinguishing; discrimination of disease. 
Digest — To dissolve and separate. 
Dilution — Action by which a dose of medicine is diminiched in 

strength. 
Dilutions — Mixtures made weaker. 
Druidesses — Ancient British Prophetesses. 
En rapport — In sympathy, or connection with. 
Entity — A separate being. 
Epilepsy — An inflammatory disease. 
Epitomised — Condensed; brought into smaller compass. 
Erysipelas — An inflammatory disease of the skin. 
Esprit philosophique — Philosophical spirit 
Essenes — A philosophical sect. 
Exstasis — Ecstasy. 
External— Outward ; outside. 
Faculty — Power; virtue. 
Ferrous, or Ferruginous — Composed of iron. 
Flouted — Jeered at; scorned. 
Focal apparatus — Central machinery. 

Ganglionic system — The great sympathetic system of nerves. 
Gaul — France. 

Hahnemann — The father of Homoeopathy. 
Haemoglobin — A principal constituent of the blood. 
Hereditary— Inherited from progenitors. 
Hippocrates — Born, b. c. 460. A founder of Medical Science. 



GLOSSARY 93 

Homoeopathy — Medical doctrine of Hahnemann, via., "Like cures 

like." 
Hypnotism — Mesmerism; animal magnetism. 
Iamblicus — Celebrated neo-Platonist of the 4th century. 
Idiosyncrasy — A particular peculiarity. 
Incidentally — Casually; not premeditated. 
Induced — Brought about. 
Infinitesimal— Exceedingly small. 
Infinitude — Boundless immensity. 
Inorganic — -Not having organical parts. 
Insulated — Isolated. 

Intersecting — Mutually crossing; dividing. 
Internal — Inner. 
Intervention — Interference. 
Introvision — A seeing into. 
Intuition — Mental insight. 
Inversion — Turning inside out. 
Inverted — Reversed. 
Kluge — A German author. 
Lamen — A table used by occultists. 
Lucid — Clear. 

Lucidity — Clairvoyance, or clear-sight. 
Magnetoid — Magnetic. 
Manganese — An oxidised metal. 
Mesmer — Modern apostle of Mesmerism in Europe. 
Microcosm — A miniature or little world. 
Mirabile dictu — Wonderful to be told. 
Modus operandi — Method of working. 
Monadial — Simple, primary, atomic. 
Mundane — Earthly. 

Negative — Containing the least ; not so strong as the positive. 
Nerve plexuses — Network of nerves. 
Noxious — Harmful. 
Objective — That which we Know. 
Oxide — Oxygen deposit 
Palliation — That which excuses or conceals. 
Paracelsus — A renowned ancient physician and philosopher. 
Paradox — Contrary to ; a seeming contradiction. 



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Par excellence — By way of eminence. 

Passivity — Not opposing. 

Platina — A highly valuable silver-like metal. 

Pliny — Famous learned Roman Natural Historian. 

Pluto and Proserpina — King and Queen of the Infernal Regions. 

Polarity — Opposite properties or powers, as North and South. 

Positive — Absolute ; containing the most. 

Precipitate — A powdery deposit 

Promulgated — To make generally known. 

Psychologists — Students of psychology. 

Psychometry — Examining of substances through higher intuition. 

Pythagoras — A great ancient philosopher, born about b. c. 570. 

Randolph, P. B. — A famous occultist and writer of America. 

Ratiocinate — To reason ; argue. 

Reactivity — Action of resistance to a power applied. 

Reciprocal — Interchanging. 

Refraction — Rebound of rays of light. 

Reichenbach (Baron v.) — Famous German optician and author. 

Remote — Distant; far off. 

Resuscitation — Revival. 

Salivation — Superabundant secretion of saliva. 

Seer — A Clairvoyant, or Prophet. 

Sensuous — Relating to the enjoyment by the senses. 

Sir Charles Bell — A famous British anatomist and author. 

Species — Form, appearance; a group or kind. 

Specific — Special. 

Specularii — Name of an Irish sect. 

Speculum — Instrument for examining cavities. 

Sphere — A globe or ball. 

Spontaneously — Of own accord; voluntarily. 

Stethoscope — Instrument for examining the chest. 

Strabo — Ancient Geographical writer. 

Striated — Marked with small channels or grooves. 

St. Augustine — A famous early Father, and Missionary. 

St. Justin — Celebrated Platonic philosopher and Christian Martyr. 

St. Thomas Aquinas — An early Father of the Church. 

Subjective — That of which we are conscious. 

Succussion — Shaking. 



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Suetonius — Friend of Pliny. A learned author. 

Surreptitious — Obtained by stealth. 

Swedborg — A wonderful philosopher and theologian. Born, 1688; 

died, London, 1772. 
Symmetrically — In true form and proportion. 
Tacitus — Friend of Pliny. An historian and orator. 
Temperament — Dominant bodily constitution. 
Tenets — Principles; opinions held to be true. 
Terrestrial — Relating to the earth. 
Tetragrammaton — The Lord of Hosts. 
The "Call" — Invocation to a spirit. 
Therapeutic — Treating disease. 

Torpor — Incapability of motion; numbness; lethargic sleep. 
Transmutation — Changing of one substance into another. 
Trituration — Rubbing, grinding, or reducing to powder. 
Van Helmont — Paracelsian discoverer in chemistry. 
Venous — The dark portal blood. 
Vito-magnetic — Bodily magnetism connected with the life power. 

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